Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
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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True progress is slow but sure.
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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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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Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.
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One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
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The 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.
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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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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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There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
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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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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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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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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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Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
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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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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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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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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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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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