Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDABooks 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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True progress is slow but sure.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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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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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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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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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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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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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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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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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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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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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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