Swami Sivananda quotes

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

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

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.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

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

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

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.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

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.

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.

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

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.