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1 " This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero! "
― Sivananda Saraswati
2 " There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. "
3 " Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. "
4 " Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path. "
5 " An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil. "
6 " 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. "
7 " Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. "
8 " Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance. "
9 " if you have a strong power of endurance, patience and fine health, if your dispassion is intense and of a sustained type and if you are willing to do some selfless service to mankind, you need not worry about money. "
― Sivananda Saraswati , Autobiography of Swami Sivananda
10 " O Man! Be ever prepared. Live this moment as though it is your last moment on this earth and acquire the maximum spiritual wealth here and now. "
― Sivananda Saraswati ,
11 " A knowledge more secret than the Svara Yoga, a wealth more useful than Svara Yoga, have never been found. "
12 " That man who is regular and punctual will get sure success in all walks of life. "
― Sivananda Saraswati , Sure Ways For Success In Life And God Realisation
13 " The secret of success in life is time rightly used. "
14 " Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. "
15 " Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. "
16 " Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we "
17 " If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. "
18 " It is Maya that makes you feel, “This man is inferior and the other man is superior. "
― Sivananda Saraswati , Satsanga and Svadhyaya
19 " Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts. "
― Sivananda Saraswati , Thought Power: The Right Methods of Handling and Manipulating Thought for the Best Benefit of Man
20 " Thoughts are giant-powers. They are more powerful than electricity. They control your life, mould your character, and shape your destiny. "
