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.
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.
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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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The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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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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Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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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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Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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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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Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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