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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAHe who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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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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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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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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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
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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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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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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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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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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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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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