Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAOnward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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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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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.
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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 Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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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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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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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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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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Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
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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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No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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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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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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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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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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The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
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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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Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
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