The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDADo not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
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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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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
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The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
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The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah – it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.
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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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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it. Believe in it, and it must and will come out.
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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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Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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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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