Swami Sivananda

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.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

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.

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.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.