Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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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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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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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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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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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Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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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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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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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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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 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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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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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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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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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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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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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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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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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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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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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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