Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Hands Quotes

Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can never escape unless someone comes and lends us a helping hand.

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No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

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We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.

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I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

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It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

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If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream.

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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 ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

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Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

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Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

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The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

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First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.

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We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.

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[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion.

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Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect..." Never allow weakness to overtake your mind.

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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

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In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

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So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

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If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.

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