Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Past
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You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds
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All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.
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I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.
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The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
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Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
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We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves 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 the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
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Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.
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The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.
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No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.
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The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
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There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.
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