Swami Sivananda Quotes

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Spirituality lies in what you do and how you do it and not what result you get.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

Kindness is our religion.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and leave nothing for others, or do the angels of our better nature still live? I believe the angels are still alive.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

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

Compassion has to become a discipline. It's something that you do. It's no good thinking that you agree with compassion or not, you've just got to do it. Just like it's no good agreeing that it's possible to float, you just have to get into the pool and then you learn that it's possible.

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.