Paramahansa Yogananda

A smooth life is not a victorious life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A ‘wish’ is a desire without energy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.

Paramahansa Yogananda

As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.

Paramahansa Yogananda

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Fear is born of the thought of failure when one is attached to success. Anger is born of frustrated desire.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Paramahansa Yogananda