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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAYou must all pay attention to your health first.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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True progress is slow but sure.
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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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If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.
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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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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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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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To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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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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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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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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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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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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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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