Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAKnow that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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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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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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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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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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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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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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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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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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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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