Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDADo 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.”
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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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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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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Never say NO, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
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When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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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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Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
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