Swami

Stand up, be bold, be strong.

Take the whole responsibility on your shoulders,

and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

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It is the coward and the fool who says, "This is fate" - so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says - "I will make my fate".

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Strength is life; weakness is death.

Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death.

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Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison; there is no life in it, it can not be true. Truth is strengthening. Truth is purity, truth is all knowledge.

-- Swami Vivekananda