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
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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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 history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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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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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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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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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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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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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
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