"Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy."
"Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals."
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Source: Pearls of Wisdom. Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.
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