Swami Vivekananda quotes - page 9

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree. (Swami Vivekananda)
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. View quote
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The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet. View quote
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Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others. View quote
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Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God. View quote
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Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. View quote
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So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them! View quote
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This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death. View quote
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If I do an evil action, I must suffer for it; there is no power in this universe to stop or stay it. View quote
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Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.' That which I created, I can demolish; that which is created by someone else, I shall never be able to destroy. Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creators of your own destiny. All the strength and success you want is within ourselves. View quote
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It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world - that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you are not understanding it in the right light. throw the burden on yourselves! (Swami Vivekananda)
It is the coward and the fool who says, This is my fate – so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, I will make my own fate. It is people who are getting old who talk of fate. Young men generally do not come to astrology. View quote
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Teach men of strength that is already within them. View quote
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Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time. View quote
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The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still. View quote
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When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were, only we shall understand the whole thing. View quote
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The greatest error is to call a man a weak and miserable sinner. Every time a person thinks in this mistaken manner, he rivets one more link in the chain of avidya that binds him, adds one more layer to the "self-hypnotism” that lies heavy over his mind. View quote
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There is only one sin. That is weakness.... The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. View quote
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Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you still dare to do what you think is right? View quote
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The important thing is: how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter-as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being. View quote
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The Vedanta teaches that Nirvana can be attained here and now, that we do not have to wait for death to reach it. Nirvana is the realization of the Self; and after having once known that, if only for an instant, never again can one be deluded by the mirage of personality. (Swami Vivekananda)
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. If we can bring ourselves down by our karma, surely it is in our power to raise ourselves by our own karma. View quote
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It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. View quote
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The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence. View quote
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This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. View quote
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