The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
If our senses conveyed the whole truth to us, we would see the Earth as rivers and glaciers of electrons, each speck of dust as a rolling mass of light.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Kindness
Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Forgiveness
Behind the dark clouds of temporary disillusionment
awaits the silver lining of eternal fulfillment.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Live for others, and they will live for you.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Kindness
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Truth
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Control
True friends want nothing from you except the joy of your presence. No matter what you do, they will always be your friend.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Harmony
The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Meditation
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
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.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Friends and Friendship, Thinking, Friendship, Service, Kindness, Giving
Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Zeal
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Conflict
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: God, Heart, Believe, Happy, Trust, Faith
In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Sing songs that none have sung
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Singing
Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Topics: Harmony
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the dumb can understand.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Love is the silent conversation between two hearts.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
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