Best Quotes by Swami Vivekananda (Top 10)
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Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!
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Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
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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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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
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All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.
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The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
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All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.
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More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
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Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
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All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
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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. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
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The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
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The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
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Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World...
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If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
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The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
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The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
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If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
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Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
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To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
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God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
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My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
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Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.
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Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.
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The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.
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The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful
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