If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDATake up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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