Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.


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God cannot be seen so long as there is the slightest taint of desire. Therefore have your minor desi...
RAMAKRISHNA
Suppose a man becomes pure by chanting the holy name of God, but immediately afterwards commits many...
RAMAKRISHNA
Bondage is of the mind ; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God...
RAMAKRISHNA
At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at ...
RAMAKRISHNA
If you want to go east, don't go west
RAMAKRISHNA
Man's ego itself is Maya. It is the veil that shuts the light.
RAMAKRISHNA
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learnin...
RAMAKRISHNA
You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do ...
RAMAKRISHNA
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts ma...
RAMAKRISHNA
What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras...
RAMAKRISHNA
The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA
It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA
Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap wil...
SRI RAMAKRISHNA
God had created the world in play.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is...
SRI RAMAKRISHNA
Laughter drives shouting away.
INDRA DEVI
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowl...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
INDRA DEVI
Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
INDRA DEVI
We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to...
INDRA DEVI
We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in o...
INDRA DEVI
Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
INDRA DEVI
Yoga is an art and science of living.
INDRA DEVI
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed...
INDRA DEVI
Sing of my deeds
Tell of my combats
How I fought the treacherous demons
Forgive my fa...
PHOOLAN DEVI
I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Ne...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. ...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
Nobody challenges me. I challenge myself.
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many o...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subje...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everythin...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
I cannot transfer my abilities to anyone, but I can think of quicker ways with which to help people ...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, cer...
SAVITRI DEVI
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and lon...
INDRA DEVI
Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat ...
SAVITRI DEVI
We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
INDRA DEVI
I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither...
SAVITRI DEVI
Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat ...
SAVITRI DEVI
Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common s...
SAVITRI DEVI
I believe in the Law of everlasting struggle, which is the law of life, and in the duty of the best ...
SAVITRI DEVI
If there is a single fact which anyone who seriously studies the history of Christianity cannot help...
SAVITRI DEVI
Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even...
SAVITRI DEVI
Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful.
SAVITRI DEVI
To us, the high-resounding “isms” to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, no...
SAVITRI DEVI
প্রায়শই আমরা অন্যমনষ্কতার মধ্যে বাস �...
ASHAPURNA DEVI
The annals of an important monastery of the Essene sect, located only about twenty miles from Jerusa...
SAVITRI DEVI
Timing is easy to predict through the movement of the stars as they give the propensity of pure pote...
AMBIKA DEVI
Your path is illuminated by a road-map of stars. I am here to guide you!
AMBIKA DEVI
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence aga...
SAVITRI DEVI
I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred...
SAVITRI DEVI