"Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" Do not do what you want, and then you may do what you like."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" Every tomorrow is determined by every today."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery"

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!"

— Paramahansa Yogananda

"Truth is exact correspondence with reality."

— 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

" 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

" The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" There are always two forces warring against each other within us."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

"Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations. "

— Paramahansa Yogananda

" Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome."

— Paramahansa Yogananda