"Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy."
"Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation."
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Source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.938, Manonmani Publishers
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