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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.

Swami Vivekananda

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
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Hurt Inspirational Intelligence Motivational People
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
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Feeling Intellectual Life
It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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Faith Inspirational Lion Men One Liner
Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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Atheist Believe
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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Ourselves Positive Power Thinking
If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.
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Alone Heart Joy Peace Person Suffering True
You must all pay attention to your health first.
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Attention Health Pay Yourself
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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Achievement Growth Life Past Progress
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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Ability Goal Motivational
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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Awakening Effort Life Soul Spiritual
Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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Inspirational Learning Lesson Risk Win
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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Accomplishment Anger Greatness Man
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
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Desire Joy Passion Reality
The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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Body Divine Greatness Mind Strength Word
Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Experience Men World
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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Generosity God Imagination Thankful World

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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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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