Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAEducation is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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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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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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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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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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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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Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty
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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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I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
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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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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it. Believe in it, and it must and will come out.
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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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Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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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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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
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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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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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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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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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True progress is slow but sure.
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