Hello reader, Now a day’s motivation is an essential aspect of our life to become successful. People search for motivational thoughts over the internet to get self-motivated.
You don’t need to search over the internet for motivational thoughts because today in this post I am going to give 280 + motivational thoughts that will motivate you and help you succeed.
I have an experience of more than 7 years of in the motivation field. I have written a book on Psychology and Motivation. So, you don’t need to worry just read all these motivational thoughts and then give your feedback in the comment section.
280+ Motivational thoughts are written below:-
1-★The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.★
2-★There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.★
3-★All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.★
4-★If superstition enters, the brain is gone.★
5-★There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.★
6-★Form no opinion but that opinion you can do without.★
7-★You always have a choice either to love or to hate, to punish or to pardon, to heal or to hurt. Which way would you choose?★
8-★What we fear to lose is already lost to fear.★
9-★The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.★
10-★A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.★
11-★Questions we do not ask to answer many questions we do ask.★
12-★How can there be peace on earth when the hearts of men are a volcano?★
13-★Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.★
14-★To think of God is to be filled to overflowing with love divine. When love overflows, it moves out to the weary and the heavy-laden.★
15-★Through a little practice and effort, you can refuse to think along negative lines. And you will be calm, composed, at peace with yourself & with all around you.★
16-★The only true love is Divine Love. All other types of love are useful only if there is divine love in the heart within.★
17-★A good deed, which enables an act of evil, is neither good nor bad.★
18-★Human love is frittered away on worldly objects and goals that are perishable, and utterly futile. But when our love is bestowed on God we find complete and absolute fulfillment.★
19-★A man who is sure he can protect himself is more relaxed.★
20-★If there is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can read, it is the language of love!★
21-★Giving what we have is not as difficult as giving what we are. This can happen only when in whatever we do, we pour the love of our hearts.★
22-★If your thoughts are always positive, you will be at peace with yourself, and all around you, the world will smile.★
23-★You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, deserve your love and affection.★
24-★The flame of love can never be quenched and an entire ocean cannot drown it!★
25-★Bhakti is the attitude of the mind, and jnana is the attitude of the intellect, both flow towards the Lord.★
26-★The bird of love flies on two wings -Faith and Dedicated service. The stronger the wings, the higher the bird soars.★
27-★Without Love the world is like a neglected garden where no flowers bloom.★
28-★Attachment is the source of all suffering.★
29-★Friends may forsake and relatives may retaliate. But there is one who always loves. He is God! Build your life in the love of God!★
30-★The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the eviler comes from him, the better shall go from me.★
31-★Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is the liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.★
32-★ An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.★
33-★I think, therefore, I think I am.★
34-★Desire nothing, give up all desires, and be happy★
35-★Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.★
36-★What is the simplest and easiest way to meditate? The way of loving God.★
37-★He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.★
38-★To understand everything is to forgive everything.★
39-★Alert and vigilant living itself is a ‘Sadhana’ in the true sense.★
40-★God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.★
41-★Love has been with us from eternity to eternity. It was and will be with us forever and for evermore!★
42-★Desire nothing, give up all desires, and be happy.★
43-★To me the very essence of education is the concentration of the mind, not the collecting of facts.★
44-★Enter love: Exit fear! Two can never dwell together.★
45-★When love wakes up within the heart, man forgets everything. He becomes oblivious to his own surroundings. He dwells in a new world.★
46-★Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret to success.★
47-★Comfort – Comes as Guest, Lingers to become Host, and stays to ENSLAVE us.★
48-★In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.★
49-★Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, virtue appears from good deeds and wisdom appears from a pure mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.★
50-★Mind alone is Maya at play.★
51-★Seek to love God not with the intellect but with all your heart. Make your heart empty of everything, and the Lord will fill it with His Love.★
52-★We become what we love. If we love the world, its pleasures, possessions, and power, we become worldly. If we love God, we become divine!★
53-★If you would be a God, let your life flow as an unending, ceaseless stream of love!★
54-★Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not the truth, and the truth is not the answer.★
55-★To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.★
56-★A blind man who can see would sooner blind others than open his eyes.★
57-★Conditional love says: I love you because I need you! Unconditional love says: I need you because I love you.★
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58-★It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.★
59-★To worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through prayer.★
60-★It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.★
61-★Wisdom is the assimilated knowledge in us, gained from an intelligent estimation and close study of our own direct and indirect experience in the world★
62-★Unconditional love is the love that gives you the freedom to be your own self.★
63-★Imagination fulfills unrealizable desires, which leaves imagination unfulfilled.★
64-★Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.★
65-★Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.★
66-★Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.★
67-★PRAYER is pure divine love. When this highest level of love is reached, philosophy vanishes. Who will then care for it? Freedom, salvation, nirvana- all are thrown away. Who cares to become free while enjoying divine love?★
68-★Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.★
69-★Silently hear everyone.★
70-★Love is not an attribute ‘a quality ‘ of God. God is Love.★
71-★The end of ego is the ‘Mystic Death’ of the mediator.★
72-★If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.★
73-★When you love someone, the best in you rises to the surface.★
74-★One need not be in a flock to fly.★
75-★The power of purity-it is a definite power.★
76-★A man who discovers he is not what he thought he was and cannot become what he wishes to be, is a man.★
77-★Through prayer, the love of God grows and assumes a form called supreme devotion. Forms vanish, rituals fly away, books are superseded, and all the bondages disappear for the one who knows the love of God.★
78-★Few men are smarter than their own weaknesses.★
79-★The difference between men and animals is the difference.★
80-★Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.★
81-★There is no end to craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.★
82-★All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same.★
82-★We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.★
83-★An angel is not without cunning.★
84-★Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoonful of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.★
85-★The mind is everything. What you think you become.★
86-★How often do we consider what we do not understand to be evil yet we do not consider, what we do not understand, to be evil?★
87-★The greatest famine in the world, today, is that of love. Men and women are unhappy in spite of the comforts and conveniences of modern life. Our one piteous need is that of love, True love, selfless love.★
88-★To live is to love. Our hearts must be so full of love that there can be no room therein for hatred to anyone.★
89-★There is one God, One religion – The Religion of ‘Love’!★
90-★The question was asked: – ‘What is love?’ The answer came: – ‘You will know when you become love!’★
91-★Just as a mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad or even the least of them are far-reaching.★
92-★Look around and look above! Behold, my child, God is Love!★
93-★Rise above Rwanda ‘the pairs of opposites’ above pleasure and pain, loss and gain. For it is only then that suffering will not be able to touch you and you shall be at peace with yourself and those around you★
94-★Out of purity and silence come the words of power.★
95-★We must love all not merely our family and friends, our kith and kin-we must love all creation.★
96-★Worry means a strain on our nerves. The more we worry, the tenser our nerves become, robbing us of our rest and peace of mind and heart.★
97-★Temper brings you to trouble. Pride keeps you there.★
98-★ Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.★
99-★The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands a very great struggle.★
100-★What is exceptional is the ordinary man who sees exceptional men as not being ordinary.★
101-★Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.★
102-★Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret, and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.★
103-★Blessed is the person who develops even-mindedness and whose mind is at peace in all conditions and situations. He is never bored, never depressed, never disappointed. To him, life becomes a divinely delightful experience of the soul!★
104-★In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.★
105-★You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.★
106-★The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.★
107-★When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.★
108-★To the person who is in love, every winter becomes spring and the world becomes a garden of God!★
109-★Love and fault-finding never go together. The more you love, the less you judge.★
110-★HOW to worship Him? through love. He is to be worshipped as the one beloved dear than everything in this and the next life.★
111-★He is able who thinks he is able.★
112-★Love reclaims. Love transforms. Sermons or lectures do not touch the hearts of the people; the power of love does.★
113-★Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.★
114-★Without love the world is a cemetery.★
115-★Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.★
116-★It’s not whahttps://imageintotext.comt a man says, it’s what he does, and it’s not what he does, it’s what he is while he does, and it’s not what he is while he does, it’s what he is without doing, and it’s not what he is without doing, it’s what he is not, without doing.★
118-★I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.★
119-★All wrong-doing arises because of the mind. If the mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?★
120-★There is only one sin. That is weakness…. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and is determined to die game.★
121-★He who depends on chances and situations to be happy is a Sanskri★
122-★The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.★
123-★Appreciating the mind as ‘ALL SILENCE’. ‘I AM is meditation.★
124-★Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.★
125-★There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.★
126-★It is the divinity that shapes, not only your ends but also your acts, your words, and thoughts.★
127-★We do not have something unless we have something to give.★
128-★The pathway of love is paved with flames. It is only the brave who move on it, step by step, until plunging in the flames, they find eternal bliss.★
129-★Mere Suffering exists, No sufferer is found, The deed Is, but No doer of the deed is found, Nirvana is, but not the man that enters it, The path is, but no traveler on it is seen★
130-★This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, and lay the blame upon yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.★
131-★Be loyal to your principles, but never demand that anyone share them. Respect others’ right to seek truth in their own way, and at their own pace.★
132-★Be not idle. Do the best of which you are capable. Then accept whatever happens! That is way to Peace!★
133-★If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.★
134-★We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our hearts will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.★
135-★Affirm always, as my Guru taught: ‘Whatever comes of itself, let it come.’ Accept criticism impartially. Remember, What is simply is; and what is not cannot be spoken into existence. Truth, in all things, is the final arbiter.★
136-★The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit, And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care.★
137-★How can there be peace among the nations when there is no peace in our homes, offices, clubs, schools, and in our own hearts?★
138-★Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.★
139-★You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.★
140-★If you want to enjoy life, take yourself less seriously.★
141-★Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.★
142-★Temper takes you to Trouble, Pride keeps you there.★
143-★After every disaster, no matter how great, life goes on – if not in this world, then in some other. An attitude of relaxed acceptance toward whatever happens to you will bring you great inner peace and happiness.★
144-★When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it works every moment and rest every moment.★
145-★“Comfort” is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being “comfortable”.★
146-★Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is His business.★
147-★Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.★
148-★There is only one sin. That is weakness…. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and is determined to die game.★
149-★The powers of the mind should be concentrated; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.★
150-★The calmer we are, the better for us, and the more the amount of work we can do. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.★
151-★The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.★
152-★Purity is strength. Spiritual truth is purity.★
153-★Everyone should know that there is no salvation except through the conquering of desires.★
154-★Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.★
155-★You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.★
156-★Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit because He is in all hearts. The entire Universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe. ★
157-★We talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term, but how can one realize or make real that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding the unreal as real, then reality alone will remain.★
158-★Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand, you are always Bliss.★
159-★Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.★
160-★If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.★
161-★No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.★
162-★The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.★
163-★You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.★
164-★Mind is consciousness that has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.★
165-★Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.★
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166-★Total surrender of the EGO to the SELF (atman, supreme being) is the real bhakti.★
167-★First you should know who is inside you, then the same god will show you who is inside others.★
168-★To become aware of anything is to disconnect the mind from the Self and that is unhappiness.★
169-★A man does not have to suffer anymore if God removes his doubts and reveals Himself to him. But this grace descends upon him only after he has prayed to God with the intense yearning of heart and practiced spiritual discipline. ★
170-★The path of knowledge leads to Truth, as does the path that combines knowledge and love [bhakti]. The path of love leads to this goal. The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. ★
171-★His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.★
172-★If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.★
173-★GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide..★
174-★Blame is a self-inflicted wound.★
175-★The most amazing fact about love is that the more you love, the more you grow in the power to love!★
176-★FEEL like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.★
177-★Face the brutes. That is a lesson for all life, face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.★
178-★On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey, and it is the greatest property.★
179-★I don’t know much but I think a lot about the little I do know.★
180-★To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.★
181-★Remember, ‘Even This Will Pass Away.★
182-★Nearly all of mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know their true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.★
183-★If there is one thing that can never grow old, it is true love!★
184-★The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.★
185-★Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.★
186-★As the different streams have their sources in different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.★
187-★Desire, ignorance, and inequality-this are the trinity of bondage.★
188-★It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One’s source is within oneself.★
189-★Love gives and gives and gives and seeks no return. Therefore, love has nothing to lose and consequently nothing to fear.★
190-★Who are the true lovers of humanity? Those who, forgetting themselves, bring sunshine to the lives of others.★
191-★That Director of the mind, intellect, and senses, is no other than the all-merciful Lord,, your inner ruler, Antaryamin. Know Him and be free.★
192-★The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.★
193-★Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.★
194-★Everyone wishes to be loved. Only a blessed few wish to love.★
195-★Prepare to meet a man of wisdom by becoming a man of wisdom.★
196-★Moral values, culture, and religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.★
197-★The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.★
198-★Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.★
199-★What we think, we become.★
200-★Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!★
201-★Taste goodness before you recommend it.★
202-★Faith is, ‘To believe what you do not see’, the reward of which is, ‘you see what you believed.★
203-★Atman is also known as MAUN, where there is not even a trace of EGO.★
204-★Know that wealth, sex delights, power, and learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.★
205-★Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart, give yourself to it.★
206-★There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though, in fact, we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous! ★
207-★ Don’t look back forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience then alone can great deeds be accomplished.★
208-★Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself so that knowledge may grow.★
209-★As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, the master directs his straying thoughts.★
210-★Do any deserve liberty who is not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.★
211-★There are many ways to God. But the surest and shortest way is the way of love.★
212-★If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.★
213-★Disappointment can come only to those who make Appointments with the future.★
214-★The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say ‘me’ and ‘mine’; they are only blessed in being instruments.★
215-★The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.★
216-★ Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, and concentrate the mind on the present moment.★
217-★You will not be truly happy until your heart is warmed by the spark of Love.★
218-★Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth, Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.★
219-★ Every individual has his destiny to live through. Do not imprison anyone: do not cling to anyone. Set everyone free! That is the meaning of true love!★
220-★There is no destiny beyond and above ourselves; we are ourselves the architects of our future.★
221-★ An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.★
222-★Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.★
223-★Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.★
224-★A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.★
225-★A powerful man will ask the advice of a weak man to prove to himself that he has no need for advice.★
226-★A person who is jealous has not yet learned to love.★
227-★Purity in thought, speech, and act is absolutely necessary for anyone to be religious.★
228-★To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.★
229-★A man may be born of a certain race, into a given religion, and within the borders of a defined state yet by these, he is not made a man; a man is made of what he has to give and what he can give.★
230-★Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.★
231-★Without innocence a man can not be wise. With it, he can not become wise.★
232-★God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence.★
233-★ Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.★
234-★The greatest prayer is patience.★
235-★The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments.★
236-★Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.★
237-★Love is the only solution to all the problems of life.★
238-★Grace is only to be found by effort, although it is here and now.★
239-★Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices. Serve inferiors. Do not revenge, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred★
240-★There are many people with more important things to say than we have to say, but not many with more important things to learn.★
241-★Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.★
242-★Sandalwood perfumes even the axe that hurls it down! The more we rub sandalwood against a stone, the more its fragrance spreads. Such is the enchanting beauty of forgiveness in life.★
243-★There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.★
244-★That which tends to increase the divinity in you is a virtue, and that which tends to increase brutality in you is vice.★
245-★We can define the process of understanding how to become more aware but not the awareness to be understood.★
246-★He who trusts in the Lord, is ever at peace, with himself and the world.★
247-★My nature is to love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for anything. I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love’s sake. I can not trade in love.’★
248-★When we are in love, our entire personality changes. We become new!★
249-★To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.★
250-★The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.★
251-★The Mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.★
252-★The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.★
253-★In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.★
254-★There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.★
255-★The highest force in life is Love! Love is in truth the most profound philosophy of life! Love is an expansion of the self. The Lord of Love is the inspirer of all religions. And paths of all converge to a common center.★
256-★Love does not need a strong rope to keep two hearts together: a slender thread is enough.★
257-★Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.★
258-★Though a man should conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, He who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.★
259-★It is sure to be dark if you close your eyes.★
260-★Things that are Real are given and received in Silence.★
261-★A single touch of love can convert a savage into a civilized man.★
262-★Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.★
263-★This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.★
264-★Love is like perfume we cannot sprinkle it on others without getting some of it on ourselves.★
265-★Alone to ALONE all the way.★
266-★Both innocence and evil are without guilt.★
267-★The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.★
268-★Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.★
269-★They are not wrong but they do not know why they are right.★
270-★I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.★
271-★Restrain your mind from greed, and you will keep your body right, your mind pure and your words faithful. Always thinking of the transiency of your life, you will be able to desist from greed and anger and will be able to avoid all evils.★
272-★The love of God is the one Reality in this illusory world. His love doth take care of His devotees and will never let them go.★
273-★Thou one man conquers a thousand men, a thousand times in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.★
274-★Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things that renew humanity.★
275-★When you are in love, you forget your own happiness: you only wish to make the loved one happy!★
276-★He who never thinks of anything as ‘mine’ does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.★
277-★Hindu culture is essentially based upon the sacrifice implied in duty, and not upon acquisition, which is implied in rights.★
278-★ Do not love leisure. Waste, not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!★
279-★To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.★
280-★Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.★