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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMan makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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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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Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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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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Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty
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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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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
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Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
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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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