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“According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Law #Class #Survival
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“All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#May #Obstacles #Poise
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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.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Art #Ideas #Differences
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“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Inspirational #Motivational #Spiritual
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“Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Spiritual #Wisdom #Thinking
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“Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Faith #Fall #Goes On
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“It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Country #Children #Rocks
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“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Inspirational #Inspiring #Brother
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“We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Fate #Divinity #Blame
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“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Inspirational #Motivational #Beautiful
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“Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Real #Character #People
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“This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Spiritual #Thinking #Evil
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“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Inspirational #Motivational #God
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“It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Attachment #Offering #Humanity
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“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Inspirational #Motivational #Eye
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“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Inspirational #Motivational #Truth
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“Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Poison #Weak #Rejects
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“The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Men #Goal #Soul
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“All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Crazy #Believe #Half
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“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Motivational #Being Strong #World
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“Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Character #Long #Effort
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“It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Fighting #Support #Personality
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“Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Book #Ignorance #Negative
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“Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Book #Soul #Inspired
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“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Inspiring #Have Faith #Being True
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“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Love #Inspiring #Selfish
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“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Inspiring #Inspiration #Successful
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“Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Children #Heart #Thinking
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“Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Country #Three #Generations
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“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”
-- Swami Vivekananda
#Thinking #Giving #Return
