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 VIVEKANANDAMan’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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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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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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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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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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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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I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
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