Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Stars Quotes, Sky Quotes

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.

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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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The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?

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If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

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Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.

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Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

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Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

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The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

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Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

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Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

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To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

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Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

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The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

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Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

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There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.

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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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To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

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One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.

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Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.

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In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings.

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