Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Running Quotes, Laughter Quotes

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

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Differentiation is in name and form only.

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The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

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In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.

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The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.

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Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

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In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

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This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of civilisation, and if there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, mark my words, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost faith in themselves.

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Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.

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Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

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It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

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The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

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Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

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Man is not mind, he is soul.

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The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.

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Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute.

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To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

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Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands?

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Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

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