The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.
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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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