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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.

Swami Vivekananda

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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Freedom Reality
The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
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Believe Doubt Glory Greatness Past
Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
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Discipline Knowledge Mindset Strength Value
It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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Faith Inspirational Lion Men One Liner
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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Achievement Growth Life Past Progress
Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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Ideas Patience Rise Struggle Yourself
The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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High Knowledge World
He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
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Alone Care Happiness Love Mindset Misery
The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
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Anger Break Men Passion Pieces
Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
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Desire Freedom Men Terrible
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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Inspiration Meditation Practice Soul
True progress is slow but sure.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress True
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
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Deep Nature Philosophy Power Secret World
They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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Alive Live
It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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Different God Religion Spiritual
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Attainment Progress Test

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