Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
Swami VivekanandaRead
"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Confront your fears and challenges head-on with bravery.
This quote conveys the importance of facing life's difficulties directly and courageously. Swami Vivekananda emphasizes that by confronting our fears and challenges, rather than avoiding them, we can overcome the hardships that burden us, similar to how monkeys can escape danger when they stop running away.
Themes
CourageFearChallengesLifeBravery
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be shared during a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.
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Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is a question of knowledge! You must know what you are, and it is done. The dream vanishes. This you [and others] are dreaming here. When they die, they go to [the] heaven [of their dream]. They live in that dream, and [when it ends], they take a nice body [here], and they are good people.
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