Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAYou 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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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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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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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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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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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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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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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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We 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.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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