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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAEducation is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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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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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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If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.
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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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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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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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If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
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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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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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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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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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