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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.

Swami Vivekananda

The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Learning Spirituality Teaching
Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Men Motivational Power Reality Strength Weakness
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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Discipline Knowledge Mindset Strength Value
If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Alone Heart Joy Peace Person Suffering True
Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Brave. Perseverance Enough Inspirational Motivational
They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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Alive Live
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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Happiness Independence Misery Motivational
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Responsibility Suffering
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Ability Goal Motivational
The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah – it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Animal Man Men Spirit Unity
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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Character Habit Hope Man Reform
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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Death Learning Men Myself
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Inspirational Motivational Thinking Weakness
He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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Alone Energy Patience Perseverance Success
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
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Ignorance Men Mindset Perfection
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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

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