Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.

— Sri Chinmoy

Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only when gratitude is there. Limited love does not offer gratitude. Limited love is immediately bound by something-by constant desires or constant demands. But when it is unlimited love, constant love, then gratitude comes to the fore. This love becomes all gratitude.

— Sri Chinmoy

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life-in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

— Sri Chinmoy

Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you have to find and fulfil it there. There can be no external way for you to fulfil your mission. The deer grows musk in his own body. He smells it and becomes enchanted, and tries to locate its source. He runs and runs, but he cannot find the source. In his endless search, he loses all his energy and finally he dies. But the source he was so desperately searching for was within himself. How could he find it elsewhere? Such is the case with you. Your special mission-which is the fulfillment of your divinity-is not outside you, but within you. Search within. Meditate within. You will discover your mission.

— Sri Chinmoy

Hate is often an obverse form of love. You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love.

— Sri Chinmoy

Have little, Need less:This is the way To inner peace. Surrender is a journey From the outer turmoil To the inner peace. PeaceIs in inner awakening, And this inner awakening We must share With the rest of the world.

— Sri Chinmoy

Hope abides; therefore I abide. Countless frustrations have not cowed me. I am still alive, vibrant with life. The black cloud will disappear, The morning sun will appear once again In all its supernal glory.

— Sri Chinmoy

Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

— Sri Chinmoy

Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

— Sri Chinmoy

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

— Sri Chinmoy