When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMan’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
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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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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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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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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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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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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
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This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.
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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 one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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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.
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All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
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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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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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