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 VIVEKANANDAThe best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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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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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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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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Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
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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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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
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