Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDADo one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
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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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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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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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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
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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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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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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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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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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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