Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWhatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.
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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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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
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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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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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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah – it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.
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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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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
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The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
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