Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Positive Thinking, Life, and Karma

“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For yoga is perfect evenness of mind.”

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“Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do. When consciousness is unified, however, all vain anxiety is left behind. There is no cause for worry, whether things go well or ill.”

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“Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery, Arjuna.”

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“Those established in Self-realization control their senses instead of letting their senses control them.”

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“Left to itself, the mind goes on repeating the same old habitual patterns of personality. By training the mind, however, anyone can learn to step in and change old ways of thinking; that is the central principle of yoga:”

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“We must act in a selfless spirit, Krishna says, without ego-involvement and without getting entangled in whether things work out the way we want; only then will we not fall into the terrible net of karma. We cannot hope to escape karma by refraining from our duties: even to survive in the world, we must act.”

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“Thus the Gita places human destiny entirely in human hands. Its world is not deterministic, but neither is it an expression of blind chance: we shape ourselves and our world by what we believe and think and act on, whether for good or for ill.”

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“Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit.”

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“When a man dwells on the pleasure of sense, attraction for them arises in him. From attraction arises desire, the lust of possession, and this leads to passion, to anger. From passion comes confusion of mind, then loss of remembrance, the forgetting of duty. From this loss comes the ruin of reason, and the ruin of reason leads man to destruction.”

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“Refusing to yield to dualities is your sacred duty. Do it; stay unmoved by them. Or your mind’ll be in constant turmoil.”

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“They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them.”

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“Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind.”

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“They alone see truly who see the Lord the same in every creature, who see the deathless in the hearts of all that die. Seeing the same Lord everywhere, they do not harm themselves or others.!”

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“Fire turns firewood to ash. Self-knowledge turns to ash all actions of dualities on your mind and brings you inner peace.”

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“One who neither rejoices nor grieves, who neither laments nor desires, and who renounces both auspicious and inauspicious things — such a devotee is very dear to Me.”

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“If you want to see the brave and bold, look to those who can return love for hatred.”

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“For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness, peace and selfless work.”

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“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”

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“Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.”

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“Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires.”

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“A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.”

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“That one is dear to me who runs not after the pleasant or away from the painful, grieves not, lusts not, but lets things come and go as they happen.”

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“One has to learn tolerance in the face of dualities such as happiness and stress, warmth and cold and by tolerating such dualities become free from anxieties regarding gain or loss.”

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“The effort never goes waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.”

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“Renounce your inner dependence on results. And stay unmoved in attention. Actions and results can’t distress you then.”

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“Whatever has happened has happened for good, whatever is happening is happening for good, whatever will happen, shall also be good.”

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“The Power of God is with you all the time.”

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“And know for certain that Krishna will resolve everything in the end, in a way you would never imagine.”

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“You are what you believe in, You become that which you believe you can become”

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“Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom.”

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“I am death, which overcomes all, and the source of all beings still to be born.”

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“Change is the law of the universe. You can be a millionaire or a pauper in an instant.”

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“You came empty handed, and you will leave empty handed.”

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“There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.”

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“Lust, Anger, and Greed are the three doors to hell.”

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