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Never do anything that taints your mind.
Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations
that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality.
Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture
the good qualities you want to have.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- 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
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Let my soul smile through my heart
and my heart smile through my eyes,
that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Faithfulness in the performance of small duties
gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations
that life will someday force us to make.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable.
They little know what radical change are possible through prayer.
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O infinite creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
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One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
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Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
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Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
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