Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDABe an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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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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To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
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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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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
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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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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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Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
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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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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
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