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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

Swami Vivekananda

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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Generosity God Imagination Thankful World
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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Acknowledgement Beautiful Believe Religion Soul Theory
Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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Character Difference Fame Learning Money Pay Wall
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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Deep Nature Philosophy Power Secret World
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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Inspirational Power Yourself
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
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Hurt Inspirational Intelligence Motivational People
Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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Freedom Reality
All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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Body Food Force Human
Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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Flow Inspirational Remarkable
Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
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Discipline Knowledge Mindset Strength Value
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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Deep Existence Men Motivational Perfection
The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
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God Jealous Myself Reality Reign
Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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Atheist Believe
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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Book Necessary Number Secret Time
True progress is slow but sure.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress True
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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Afraid God Motivational People

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