Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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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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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No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
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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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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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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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We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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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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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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Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.
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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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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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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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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
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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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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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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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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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Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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