The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAAll the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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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.
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By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
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All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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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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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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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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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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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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It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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