Swami Brahmananda quotes:

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

However you try to define meditation, it's not that.

Meditate, meditate, meditate. Then you will find that people suffer for no reason when there is the mine of bliss in everyone's heart. Then your heart will go out in sympathy and compassion for everybody.

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.