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Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

Swami Vivekananda

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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Happiness Independence Misery Motivational
Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
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Ability Gift Grateful Help Men Poor Yourself
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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Deep Existence Men Motivational Perfection
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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Afraid God Motivational People
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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Himself Master Men Slave
None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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Men Perfect Progress Strength Thinking
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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Hate Love Philsoophy Run Yourself
This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.
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Blame Determination Inspirational Lesson
By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
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Body Control Heart Men Practice Stop
We 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.
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Alone Body Heart Light Sacrifice Soul
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.
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Believe Future Sage
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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Different God Religion Spiritual
Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
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Boys Inspirational Men Motivational
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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Action Death Face Learning Thinking Weakness Wind
If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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Equality Man Motivational Strong World
Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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Acknowledgement Beautiful Believe Religion Soul Theory

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

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