Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
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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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Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it. Believe in it, and it must and will come out.
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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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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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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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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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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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