We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWe cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
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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.
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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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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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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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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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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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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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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
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In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God’s feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
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