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 VIVEKANANDAEverything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
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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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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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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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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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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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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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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
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Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
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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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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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