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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

Swami Vivekananda

Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
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Help Injury Mistake Talk
It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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Faith Inspirational Lion Men One Liner
Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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Hate Love Philsoophy Run Yourself
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
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Desire Joy Passion Reality
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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Nation Progress Treatment Woman
The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
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God Jealous Myself Reality Reign
Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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Health Love Myself Reality
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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Responsibility Suffering
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.
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Fear Hero Motivational
Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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Atheist Believe
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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Ability Goal Motivational
Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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Body God Himself Identify Men Mistake
He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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Book Heart Need Philosophy
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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Feeling Intellectual Life
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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Action Death Face Learning Thinking Weakness Wind
There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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End Human Men Power

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