Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.