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Thing Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind…
- Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it.…
- That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the…
- A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are…
- If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot…
- Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.
- This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me…
- We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our…
- Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself."
- Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the…
- There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.
- The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form
- 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…
- Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other…
- 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…
- One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.
- The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.
- This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that…
- Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing,…
- In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any…
- There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.
- Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it…
- Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To…
- Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable,…
- When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave;…
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