External nature is only internal nature writ large.
20+ Best Swami Vivekananda Quotes & Wishes
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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.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads you, and dare to carry that out in your life.
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life.
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
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.
They alone live who live for others; the rest are more dead than alive.
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Strength is life; weakness is death.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
All power is within you; you can do anything and everything.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life: think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.
Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is reached.