Swami Vivekananda
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"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."
"In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart."
"In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path."
"The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful."
"The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves."
"Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life."
"Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison."
"Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment."
"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."
"Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death."
"Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now."
"Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others."
"Whatever you think that you will be. if you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be."
"All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of anyone. Stand up and express the divinity within you."
"Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached."
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced."
"The greatest sin is to think yourself weak."
"They alone live, who live for others."
"Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes."
"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live."