He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWhy should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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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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Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
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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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Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness
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When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
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To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
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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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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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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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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 in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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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 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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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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Never say NO, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
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