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 VIVEKANANDAWhatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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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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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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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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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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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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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
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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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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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True progress is slow but sure.
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