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All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. Swami Vivekananda All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Swami Vivekananda You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. Swami Vivekananda Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, 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. Swami Vivekananda If money help 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. Swami Vivekananda Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. Swami Vivekananda

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. Swami Vivekananda All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Swami Vivekananda As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. Swami Vivekananda 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. Swami Vivekananda

External nature is only internal nature writ large. Swami Vivekananda GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. Swami Vivekananda If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Swami Vivekananda If money help 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. Swami Vivekananda In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. Swami Vivekananda Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. Swami Vivekananda
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Your Zodiac Horoscope Insert Your Birthdate & Get Answers about Past-Present and Future. Free AboutAstro.com Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. Swami Vivekananda Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, 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. Swami Vivekananda That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. Swami Vivekananda The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. Swami Vivekananda The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God

will be in them. Swami Vivekananda The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. Swami Vivekananda The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. Swami Vivekananda The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. Swami Vivekananda Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. Swami Vivekananda We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. Swami Vivekananda Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. Swami Vivekananda You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. Swami Vivekananda 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. Swami Vivekananda

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. Saint Teresa of Avila Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. John Donne Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. William James Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale
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Your Zodiac Horoscope Insert Your Birthdate & Get Answers about Past-Present and Future. Free AboutAstro.com Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. Swami Sivananda Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. Victor Kiam Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. Alfred A. Montapert Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Baruch Spinoza Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Sasha Cohen