Swami Vivekananda: Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we mu...

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

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Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

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

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You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength

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First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

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Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals,

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The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.

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It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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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.

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"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

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Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

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Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'

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Relationships are more important than life,but it is important for those relationships to have life in them

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Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

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Give everything and look for no return.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

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There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself.... Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.

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Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

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Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.