Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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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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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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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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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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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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True progress is slow but sure.
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Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness
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