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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAPersevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
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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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Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
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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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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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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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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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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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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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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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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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I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
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