10 Vivekananda Quotes

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1. Arise, awake and do not stop until the goal is reached.
2. You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
3. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
4. Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
5. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
6. All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
7. The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
8. Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?
9. All differences in this world are of degree, and not of a kind because oneness is the secret of everything.
10. When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.