Quotes from Swami vivekananda

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Quotes were excellent!!!keep up the good work.

ShyamSivakumar K <sivakumar24_k wrote:

1. Choose the highest ideal and live your life uptothat. Look at the "ocean" and not at the wave.2. That which tends to increase the divinity in youis virtue and that which tends to increase brutality in youis vice.3. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, andin the diseased, really worships Shiva.4. Purity in thought, speech, and act is absolutelynecessary for anyone to be religious. Purity is strength.Spiritual truth is purity.5. The ideal of the man is to see God in everything.The real evil is idleness which is the principal cause ofour poverty.6. Everyone should know that there is no salvationexcept through the conquering of desires.7. Death being so certain, it is better to die for agood cause.8. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinityalready in man.9.

Your country requires heroes, be heroes!10.To me the very essence of education isconcentration of the mind, not the collecting of facts.11.Each soul is potentially divine.12.Religion is the idea which is raising the bruteunto man, and man unto God.13.All power is within you; you can do anything andeverything. Believe in that.14.Work, work, work - let this be your motto.15.Now the only way out is to listen to the words ofthe Lord in the Gita.16.Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear".17.Struggle hard to get money, but don't getattached to it.18.Feel that you are great and you become great.19.To devote your life to the good of all and to thehappiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your ownsake is not religion.20.At my will mountains will crumble up. Have thatsort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you willreach the goal.21.It is those

foolish people who identifythemselves with their bodies that piteously cry, 'Weak,weak, we are weak'.22.Keep the motto before you: "Elevation of themasses without injuring their religion".23.Man never progresses from error to truth, butfrom truth to truth, from lesser truth to higher truth.24.Avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weaknessis death.25.Never talk about the faults of others, no matterhow bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that.26.I shall inspire men everywhere until the worldshall know that it is one with God.27.Let us go forward and do yet greater things.28.The more selfish a man, the more immoral he is.29.Give to the weak, for there all the gift isneeded.30.Knowledge exists, man only discovers it.31.Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth orheaven.32.Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren,but serve them.33.Be the

witness and do not react, only thus canyou be happy.34.None can help you, help yourself; work out yourown salvation.35.Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelouswork.36.Try to love anybody and everybody.37.You have to go from the inside out. None canteach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no otherteacher but your own soul.38.Know it for certain that you are in everything.39.Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day ora year.40.Let all your nerves vibrate through the backboneof your religion.41.Do not talk much, but feel the spirit within you.42.If you want to be spiritual, you must renounce.43.Your way is the best for you, but that is no signthat it is the best for others.44.Renounce the lower so that you may get thehigher.45.Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Himin our own hearts and in every living

being?46.Your work is to serve the poor and miserable,without distinction of caste or colour.47.Help another because you are in him and he is inyou.48.The poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, theafflicted,...let these be your God. Know that service tothese alone is the highest religion.49.If I am in the dark, let me light a lamp.50.The earth's bravest and best will have tosacrifice themselves for the good of many, for the welfareof all.51.Every duty is holy, and devotion to duty is thehighest form of worship of God.52.We only get what we deserve. It is a lie when wesay, the world is bad and we are good. It can never be so.53.You will understand the mighty strength ofKrishna better with a little of strong blood in you.54.It is struggle against nature and not conformityto nature that makes man what he is.55.Each work has to pass through these stages -ridicule,

opposition and then acceptance.56.First there should be strictintegrity...Secondly, entire devotion to the cause57.The will is not free - it is a phenomenon boundby cause and effect - but there is something behind the willwhich is free.58.You fail only when you do not strive sufficientlyto manifest infinite power.59.Whatever you do, devote your whole Mind, Heart,and Soul to it.60.Whatever you think, that you will be. If youthink yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you thinkyourselves strong, strong you will be.61.Never mind failures; they are quite natural, theyare the beauty of life - these failures.62.He works best who works without any motive,neither for money, nor for fame, nor for anything else.63.The new religion says that he is an atheist whodoes not believe in himself.64.Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.65.You should work like a master and not as a

slave;work incessantly, but do not do a slave's work66.Believe that the soul is immortal, infinite andall powerful.67.Even if the order be wrong, first obey and thencontradict it.68.Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear".69.Our first duty is not to hate ourselves; becauseto advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then inGod.With LoveSivakumar