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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

Swami Vivekananda

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Courage Heart Love Mind Myself
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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Ourselves Positive Power Thinking
Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
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Attachment Avoid Endurance Liberty
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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Easy Inspirational
Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
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Help Injury Mistake Talk
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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Boys Inspirational Men Motivational
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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Motivational Teacher Teaching Understand
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Deep Nature Philosophy Power Secret World
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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Different God Religion Spiritual
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
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Death Fear Hell Inspirational Life Motivational Wrong
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
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Feeling Intellectual Life
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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

God Inspirational Motivational Ourselves
Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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Blame Commitment Ignorance Mistake
Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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Freedom Reality
Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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Health Love Myself Reality
Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Discipline Knowledge Mindset Strength Value

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