Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAHe who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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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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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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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
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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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No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
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Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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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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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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