"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong." ― Swami Vivekananda Topic(s): Great More From Swami Vivekananda "We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." "If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished." "External nature is only internal nature writ large." More In Great "My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water."― Mark Twain "However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld "All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers."― Chief Joseph