Friday, August 12, 2011

# 020 Thoughts from Vivekananda


Maturity
It is good to be born a child; but bad to remain a child.


Thoughts
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.
Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Commitment
Even a fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their heart.

Education
Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man

Action
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish to be.We have the power to make ourselves.
If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions. So we have to know how to Act.

Character
Neither money pays, nor name, nor fame, nor learning,
it is character that can cleave through adamantine walls of difficulties

Society
Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

Get up and Act

Get up and put your shoulders to the wheel, leave some mark behind. Otherwise where is the difference between the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

Fearlessness
Only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. It is the fear that brings misery, death and breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our real nature.