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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANever say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.
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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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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 remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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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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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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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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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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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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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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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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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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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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