Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it.