Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
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The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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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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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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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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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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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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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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We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
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