SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

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                                           Famous Quotes

-You cannot believe in god until you believe in yourself.
Each soul is potentially great.

-The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.

-Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy—by one, or more, or all of these—and be free.

-This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

-So long as even a single dog in my country is without food my whole religion is to feed it and serve it, anything excluding that is unreligious.

-Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

-Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man.

-Religion is the manifestation of divinity already in man.

-Serving man is serving God.

-Awake,arise,work.

-to stir up the religious awareness of the masses and generate pride in their legacy.

-to amalgamate Hinduism by highlighting the common bases of its sects.

-to focus the attention of educated people on the plight of the oppressed masses, and to elaborate his plans for their uplift by applying the principles of Practical Vedanta.

-Strength is life, Weakness is death.

-The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain—and the whole world is at your feet.