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Before Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere,…
- I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This…
- Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
- Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.
- "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when…
- Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one…
- Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.
- This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the…
- In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from…
- Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass…
- We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect…
- For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not…
- Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.
- Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.
- Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal…
- 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…
- You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands…
- Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about…
- The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous…
- Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but…
- We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".
- Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought,…
- The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating…
- 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…
- The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and…
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood