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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDABe an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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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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By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
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It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.
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The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
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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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We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
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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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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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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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He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
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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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Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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