He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWe must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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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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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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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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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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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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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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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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Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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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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In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God’s feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
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