Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Writing Quotes, Mind Quotes

The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons.

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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

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The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

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Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.

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Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

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Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

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Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

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I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

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The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

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Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

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Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

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Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

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Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

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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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God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.

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All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

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Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

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The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful.

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Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

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I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

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