"We see many persons talking the most..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.
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“The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments”
“Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.”
“The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.”
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“Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.”
“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.”
“If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.”