Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDATake Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
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True progress is slow but sure.
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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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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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Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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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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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness
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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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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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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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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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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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Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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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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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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Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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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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