Paramahansa Yogananda

• Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
• By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
• Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
• Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.
• Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
• If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form.
• If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
• Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good.
• Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.
• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
• Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
• When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
• When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.