Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Determined

“Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”

Ideas Struggle Patience

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Regretful

“I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.”

Roots Messages Reform

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Philosophical

“Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.”

May Despondency

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Confident

“The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves”

Men Success

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Philosophical

“Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.”

Believe Form Idol Worship

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Philosophical

“Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.”

Firsts Accepting Verify

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Creative

“Poetry and philosophy will become friends.”

Philosophy

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Spiritual

“I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?”

Practice Teaching

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Spiritual

“To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.”

Ideas Spirit Chains That Bind

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Courageous

“The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.”

Men Passion Anger

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Spiritual

“It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.”

Powerful Change Surroundings

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Calm

“The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.”

Men Mind Mistake

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