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Since today is 158th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, I am gonna share some of the Best Quotes by Swami Vivekananda.
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“Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.”
“What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.”
“Stand upon the Self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.”
“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.”
“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”
“Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.”
“Come out into the universe of light. Everything in the universe is yours. Stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you ever felt you wanted to do that, you have felt God.”
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
“Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.”
“Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.”
“Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear.”
“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.”
“As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?”
"The greatest sin is to think yourself weak."
“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”
“Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand.”
“Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.”
“If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished-mountains can be crumbled into atom.”
“All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished-mountains can be crumbled into atom.”
“Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself.”
“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.”
“Who is Helping You, Don’t Forget them.
Who is Loving you, Don’t Hate them.
Who is Believing you, Don’t Cheat them.”
Who is Loving you, Don’t Hate them.
Who is Believing you, Don’t Cheat them.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.”
“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.”
“I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher.” That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.”
“This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.”
“Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature , external and internal. Do this either by work , or worship or psychic control or philosophy – by one or more or all of these and be free.”
“If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.”
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
