Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANever 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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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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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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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the 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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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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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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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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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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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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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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