Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDALet him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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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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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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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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Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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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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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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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
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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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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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Onward, 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.
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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 test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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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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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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The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
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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 mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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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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Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
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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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