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 VIVEKANANDANeither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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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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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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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 makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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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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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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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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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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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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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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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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