We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAEveryone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
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Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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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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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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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
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When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
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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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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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