The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAShri 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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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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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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True progress is slow but sure.
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Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
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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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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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