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 VIVEKANANDAWhen death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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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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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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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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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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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.
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Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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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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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
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