• Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge.
  • The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind, but the object of your study is always your own mind.
  • If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man.
  • All this is determined by Karma, work. No one can get anything unless he earns it. This is an eternal law.
  • Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate.
  • We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
  • “To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:” Leave the fruits alone. Why care for results? If you wish to help a man, never think what that man’s attitude should be towards you. If you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.
  • In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever, without thinking of future, of heaven, of punishment, or anything of the kind, has in him the capacity to become a powerful moral giant.
  • Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God.
  • Activity always means resistance. Resist all evils, mental and physical; and when you have succeeded in resisting, then will calmness come.
  • The knowledge of God should be his goal of life. Yet he must work constantly, perform all his duties; he must give up the fruits of his actions to God.
  • A man must go about his duties without taking notice of the sneers and the ridicule of the world.
  • When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.