You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.