The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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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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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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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
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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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The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
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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, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
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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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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty
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