The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
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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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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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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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Know 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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Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.
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Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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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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Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty
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