"First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards."
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"It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm."
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"Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it."
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"The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer."
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"It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status."
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"Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jnâna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point."
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"Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die."
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"Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality."
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"Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice."
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"You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains."
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"In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us."
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"He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage."
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"He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed."
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"We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life."
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"I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me."
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"Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die."
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"Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal."
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"I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense."
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"There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in the midsummer sun of India, and in winter float in the waters of the Ganga for a whole day; they do not care. Men sit in the snow of the Himalayas, and do not care to wear any garment. What is heat? What is cold? Let things come and go, what is that to me, I am not the body."
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"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."
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