The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAYou are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it. Believe in it, and it must and will come out.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
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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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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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True progress is slow but sure.
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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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Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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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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There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
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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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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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