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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.

Swami Vivekananda

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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Nation Progress Treatment Woman
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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Life Material Meditation Myself Power
Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.
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Different Faith Heart People Power Yourself
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
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Inspirational Motivational Power Strong Thinking Weakness
My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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Children Lying Practice Theory
None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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Men Perfect Progress Strength Thinking
It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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Calm Deep Manifestation Power
As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
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Anger Deep Men Philsophy Reaction Slave
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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Achievement Growth Life Past Progress
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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Ignorance Men Mindset Perfection
He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Himself Inspirational Struggle Try
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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Happiness Independence Misery Motivational
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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Hate Love Philsoophy Run Yourself
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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Feeling Intellectual Life
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Inspirational Motivational Thinking Weakness
The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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Funny History Inspirational Men Success

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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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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