"It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want.”

“Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.”

“You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.”

“The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.”

“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”

“The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.”

“The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.”

“Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.”

“There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.”