"Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be."
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"The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves"
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"Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you."
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"I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform."
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"Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it."
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"Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary."
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"To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea."
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"The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened."
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"It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings."
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"Poetry and philosophy will become friends."
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"I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?"
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"The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior."
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"He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable."
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"Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations."
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"Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness."
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"Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension."
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"All the powers in the universe are already ours."
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"Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!"
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"Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more."
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"Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements."
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