"Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe."
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"Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, "Have faith in this fellow or that fellow", but I say, "Have faith in yourself first", that's the way. Have faith in yourself-all power is in you-be conscious and bring it out. Say, "I can do everything.""
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"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live."
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"Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached."
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"The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge."
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"Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better!"
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"He who struggles is better than he who never attempts"
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"The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet."
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"Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'"
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"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
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"So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it."
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"Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any life in you! Even though you know that you are going to be killed, fight till you are killed! Don't die of fright! Die fighting! Don't go down till you are knocked down."
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"Relationships are more important than life,but it is important for those relationships to have life in them"
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"You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher."
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"We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise."
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"A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten."
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"All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything without even the guidance of any one."
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"But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these."
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"The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women."
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"Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles."
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