Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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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Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
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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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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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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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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
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Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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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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We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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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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Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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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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There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
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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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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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Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
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