Circumstances can never be good or bad. Only the individual man can be good or bad. - Swami Vivekananda

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

The Upanishads point out that the goal of man is neither misery nor happiness, but we have to be master of that out of which these are manufactured. We must be masters of the situation at its very root, as it were.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.