Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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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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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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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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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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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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
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Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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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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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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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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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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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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