Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes

Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.

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You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.

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Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

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Perfection is always infinite.

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The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.

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India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

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Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.

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There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

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The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.

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Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.

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Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

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Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

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Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

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Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

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Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

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Infinite strength is religion and God.

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You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions.

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How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.

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