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First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Swami Vivekananda

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Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.
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Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.
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Watch people do their most common actions these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
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He who conquers self conquers all.
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To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.
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I hear, Western people say, The world was created for us. If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be.
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It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.
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The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever.
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May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts
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Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.
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Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
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To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.
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It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake.
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