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Swami Vivekananda’s 150 Quotes
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1. “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.”

2. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”

3. “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”

4. “When I Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face

When I Asked God for Brain & Brown
He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve

When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People

When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me How to Help Others

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed.”

5. “In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”

6. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as you’re thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.”

7. “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 law of life, just as you breathe to live. ”

8. “Be not afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. It is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.”

9. “The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”

10. “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”

11. “Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is

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