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The highest concept we can have of god is man.

Feeling is the soul, the secret of everything.

What you do not make free, will never grow.

Everyone is struggling for freedom – from the atom to the star.

The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness.

Freedom is of the nature of the soul, it is its birth right.

The search for freedom is the search of all religions.

God is a circle whose circumference is nowhere and whose centre is everywhere.

God is the centre of attraction for every soul.

God is lover personified.

- Swami Vivekananda

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Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

Fame does not pay, nor learning.

Faith is one of the potent factors of humanity and of all religion.

Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in god – this the secret of greatness.

Fear is a sign of weakness.

Fear is the mother of all misery.

You are fearless and deathless only when you are the universe.

The greatest sin is fear.

It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world.

God is the magnet and human soul is the needle.

- Swami Vivekananda

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To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts.

By declaring we are weak, we become weaker, we do not become better.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in god.

The cause of evil is our desire to be superior to others and our selfishness.

The worm of today is the god of tomorrow.

Fire and enthusiasm must be in our blood.

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want.

Only that is ours which we earn.

One’s destiny is in one’s own hands – the Guru only makes this much understood.

One particle of matter has all the energy of the universe at its back.

- Swami Vivekananda

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Strength, strength is what the Upanishads, speak to me from every page.

Real education is that which enables one to stand on one’s own legs.

Ours are the duties. Let the fruited take care of themselves.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

The only way of getting our divine nature manifested is by helping others to do the same.

Duty of any kind is not to be slighted.

We need to have three things; the heart to feel, the brain to conceive the hand to work.

Experience is the only source of knowledge.

Everyone must work out his own salvation.

Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.

- Swami Vivekananda

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Two Traveling Angels

 

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family.

 

The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion’s guest room. Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement.

 

As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, “Things aren’t always what they seem.”

 

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife.

 

After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night’s rest. When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field.

 

The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel, “How could you have let this happen? The first man had everything, yet you helped him.” – she accused. “The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die.”

 

“Things aren’t always what they seem.” – the older angel replied.

 

“When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn’t find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren’t always what they seem.”

 

Author Unknown

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Death is better than a vegetation ignorant life; it is better  to die on the battle-field than to live a life of defeat.

It is our desire that blinds us.

Enjoyment lies not in physical development, but in the culture of the mind and the intellect.

Desire makes slaves of us.

Dirt cannot wash dirt; hate cannot cure hate.

First bread and then religion.

Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the ultimate, an illumination.

If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him.

The sum total of the energies in the universe is the same throughout.

Everything will come to you if you have faith.

- Swami Vivekananda

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Ignorance is the great mother of all misery.

Character is repeated habits and repeated habits alone can reform character.

Every moment is a new chance.

It is character that leaves its way through adamantine walls of difficulties.

It is character that pays everywhere.

Upon ages of struggle a character is built.

Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

It is the body that drags us down.

No one becomes learned by reading books.

It is culture that withstands shocks, not a simple mass of knowledge.

- Swami Vivekananda

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The less the thought of the body, the better.

Civilisation is the manifestation of that divinity in man.

There is no greater sin than cowardice, cowards are never saved that is sure.

The living power you cannot find in the books.

Books cannot teach god, but they can destroy ignorance, their action is negative.

Is there a greater strength than that of Brahmacharya – purity, my boy?

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect.

We are the makers of our own fate.

We reap what we sow.

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

 

- Swami Vivekanda

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A man who does not believe in himself is an atheist.

Attachment comes only whose we expect a return.

All misery and pain come from attachment.

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain.

One atom has the power of the whole universe at its back.

He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy.

The great quality of Bhakti is that it cleans the mind.

Bhakti can be more easily practised by persons in every condition of life.

Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.

Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

- Swami Vivekanda

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An Investment

Education is both a form of consumption and a kind of investment, like bread and medicine, it is something we use or consume but like a dam or canal it is something in which we invest to produce more in the future. – Kenneth Galbraith

Sunshine

Love of your work, will enlarge your life and increase your ability.  Joy in one’s tasks is what sunshine is to the fruit and flowers.  A person can do much more and better work where his heart is than where it is not – Dr. O.S. Marden

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I keep six honest serving men.  (They taught me all I know);

Their names are what and why and when
And how and where and who.  – Kipling

Education makes people east to lead, but difficult to drive, east to govern, but impossible to enslave – Henry Peter

Think big, believe big and act big.  To this, add work and struggle.  That is the formula for gaining victory over your difficulties – Norman Vincent Peale

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A woman who had worked all her life to bring about good was granted one wish, “Before I die let me visit both hell and heaven.” Her wish was granted.

 

She was whisked off to a great banqueting hall. The tables were piled high with delicious food and drink. Around the tables sat miserable, starving people as wretched as could be.

 

“Why are they like this?” she asked the angel who accompanied her.

 

“Look at their arms,” the angel replied.

 

She looked and saw that attached to the people’s arms were long chopsticks secured above the elbow. Unable to bend their elbows, the people aimed the chopsticks at the food, missed every time and sat hungry, frustrated and miserable.

 

“Indeed this is hell! Take me away from here!”

 

She was then whisked off to heaven. Again she found herself in a great banqueting hall with tables piled high. Around the tables sat people laughing, contented, joyful.

“No chopsticks I suppose,” she said.

 

“Oh yes there are. Look, just as in hell they are long and attached above the elbow but look, here people have learnt to feed one another”.

 

Author Unknown

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The Thrill in Teaching

When children learn to use the dictionary, can explain what fractions and decimals are, enjoy “(surprising you) with an interpretation of a scientific discovery or historical event, any bit of accomplishment particularly from children whom you least expect to show it, is the thrill above all others in teaching. – William Abraham – A handbook for teacher

 

 

The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work, adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority – Bertrand Russel

 

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Give me a lever long enough, and strong enough, I can move the world single handed – Archimedes

Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be used much until they are seasoned – Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Nations have passed away and left no traces; and history gives the naked cause of it.  One single, simple reason in all cases they fell because their peoples, were not fit – Kipling

Let every man be occupied, and occupied with highest employment of which capable and die with the consciousness that he has done his best – Samuel Smiles

A dictionary is the only place where success comes before work - Berman

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A Philosophy of Education

Philosophy must at each successive stage of growth help men to set up appropriate aims and ideals of life.  A suitable philosophy of education must help practical school people find the educative procedures necessary to attain these aims and prepare for still higher.  Education must bring up successive generations devoted to making life really good for all – W.H. Kilpatrick

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty – Woodrow Wilson

You cannot teach a man anything.  You can only help him find it by himself – Galileo

Ask not what the country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country – John F Kennedy

The product of science is changing; but the attitude of science is permanent.  With good teaching it must become a part of each educated individual – John Clifton Moffit

Live Positive Way - Coffee on the Wall

I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice, Italy, the city of lights and water.

 

As we enjoyed our coffee, a man entered and sat at an empty table beside us. He called the waiter and placed his order saying, “Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall.”

 

We heard this order with rather interest and observed that he was served with one cup of coffee but he paid for two.

 

When he left, the waiter put a piece of paper on the wall saying “A Cup of Coffee”.

While we were still there, two other men entered and ordered three cups of coffee, two on the table and one on the wall. They had two cups of coffee but paid for three and left. This time also, the waiter did the same; he put a piece of paper on the wall saying, “A Cup of Coffee”.

 

It was something unique and perplexing for us. We finished our coffee, paid the bill and left.

 

After a few days, we had a chance to go to this coffee shop again. While we were enjoying our coffee, a man poorly dressed entered. As he seated himself, he looked at the wall and said, “One cup of coffee from the wall.”

 

The waiter served coffee to this man with the customary respect and dignity. The man had his coffee and left without paying.

 

We were amazed to watch all this, as the waiter took off a piece of paper from the wall and threw it in the trash bin.

 

Now it was no surprise for us – the matter was very clear. The great respect for the needy shown by the inhabitants of this town made our eyes well up in tears.

 

Ponder upon the need of what this man wanted. He enters the coffee shop without having to lower his self-esteem… he has no need to ask for a free cup of coffee… without asking or knowing about the one who is giving this cup of coffee to him… he only looked at the wall, placed an order for himself, enjoyed his coffee and left.

 

A truly beautiful thought. Probably the most beautiful wall you may ever see anywhere!

Author Unknown

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A Lesson from Upanishad

Never swerve from your duties towards gods and departed ‘souls’.

May the mother be, to thee, a God

May the father be, to thee, a God
May the preceptor be, to thee, a God
May the guest be, to thee, a God
Let only actions that re free from blemishes be done and not others.

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“If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.” To him (Swami Vivekananda), the workshop, the study, the farmyard, and the field are as true and fit scenes for the meeting of God with man as the cell of the monk or the door of the temple. To him, there is no difference between service of man and worship of God, between manliness and faith, between true righteousness and spirituality.

― Sister Nivedita

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Nevertheless it moves – Galilen

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely – Lord Acton

A single step for a man, a giant leap for mankind – Neil Armstrong

Man is born free and everywhere he I in chains – Jean – Jacques Rousseall

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Frailty, thy name is woman – Hamlet

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of – Tennuson

 The woods are lovely, dark and deep

But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. – Robert Frost

 Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I wouldn’t like to be a master – Abrahman Lincoln

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But be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness trust upon them – Shakespeare

Know them thyself.  Pressure not god to sean, the proper study of mankind is man – Pope

To be or not to be; that is the question whether this nobler in the mind to suffer.  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.  Or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing and them – Shakespeare

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The old order changeth, yielding place to new.  And god fulfils himself in many way.  Let one good custom should corrupt the world – Tennyson

The child is the father of the man – Wordsworth

Cowards die many times before their death; the vaciant never taste of death but once – Shakespeare

Oh, east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet.  Till earth and sky stand presently at God’s great judgement seat – Rudyard Kipling

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It is with our passion, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters – L’s strange

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness – Keats (Endymion)

Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know – Keats

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested – Bacon

 

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence – Mark Twain

Evil habits once settled, are more easily broken than mended – Quintilian

To maintain a fault known is a double fault – Johm Jewel

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have trying to change others – Arnold Glasow

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MORNING MOTIVATION

When I woke up this morning lying in bed,
I was asking myself;
What are some of the secrets of success in life?...
I found the answer right there, in my very room.

The Fan said be cool
The roof said aim high
The window said see the world
The clock said every minute is precious
The mirror said reflect before you act
The calendar said be up-to-date
The door said push hard for your goals

AND NOT TO FORGET,
THE CARPET SAID...
KNEEL DOWN AND PRAY.

Carry a Heart that Never Hates.
Carry a Smile that Never Fades.
Carry a Touch that Never Hurts..

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt – Bertrand Russel

Everyman who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting – Aldous Huxley

Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open – Arnold Glasow

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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds – Edmund Burke

The way to wealth is an plain as the way to market.  It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money; but make the best use of both without Industry and frugality, nothing will do and with them everything. – Franklin

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is reading. – H.K. Trevelyan

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An old Cherokee told his grandson, “My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all.

One is Evil.  It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego.  The other is Good.  It  is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, & truth.”

The boy thought about it, and asked, “Grandfather, which wolf wins?”

The old man quietly replied, “The one you feed.” – author unknown

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough – Bovee.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart – Socrates.

Those are not the best students who are most dependent on books.  What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself – G. Macdonald

 

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. – John F Kennedy

God as same cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. – Heywood Brown

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like that you get – George Bernard Shaw

There is no future in any job.  The future lies in the man who holds the job – G. N. Crane

Live Positive Way - The Cup of Life

THE CUP OF LIFE

 As the disciple was about to sip his tea, he noticed a fly in his cup.

 The Master saw the disciple grimace……. He leaned forward with sympathy and consternation and asked “What’s the matter?”

“Oh, nothing.” The disciple said. “It’s nothing – just a fly in my tea.” The disciple managed a little smile to project acceptance and composure.

“Oh, oh, a fly in the tea,” the Master said in a low tone.

“It’s no problem.” The disciple reiterated, smiling reassuringly at the Master. But the Master, with all his concern rose from his chair, leaned over and dipped his finger into the tea. With great care, he lifted out the offending fly and then left the room.

 A while later, the Master returned, beaming. “He’s going to be all right,” he said softly. He explained how he had placed the fly on the leaf of a bush so his wings could dry. “He’s still alive and has started flapping his wings… we can confidently expect him to take flight soon…”

Then the Master turned towards his disciple and said, “It wasn’t a question of the tea, but the life of the fly. You can always make another cup of tea, but the fly wouldn’t have got another moment to live……… if we hadn’t acted in time.”

To the disciple stunned at the Master’s compassion, the Master said, “Use things and love life… don’t love things and abuse life.”

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Be proud that you are an Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother. - Swami Vivekananda

The greatest remedy for anger is delay – L.A. Seneca

If everybody minded their own business the wold would go round a great deal faster than it does – Lewis Caroll

The individual must die so that India may live.  Today, I must die so that India may win freedom and glory – Jatin Doss