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The man form is higher than the angel form;
by Paramahansa Yogananda
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Faithfulness in the performance of small duties
gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations
that life will someday force us to make.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Let my soul smile through my heart
and my heart smile through my eyes,
that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Never do anything that taints your mind.
Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations
that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality.
Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture
the good qualities you want to have.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable.
They little know what radical change are possible through prayer.
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O infinite creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Man Quotes and Sayings
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall.
He will end by destroying the earth.
- Albert Schweitzer
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