TAKE THAT UP, FORGET - YOUR OWN SELF FOR IT, BE MAD OVER THE IDEA

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good, and it is by leading others to Bhakti and Mukti that one attains them oneself. Take that up, forget -your own self for it, be mad over the idea. As Shri Ramakrishna used to love you, as I love you, come, love the world like that. Bring all together.

- Swami Vivekananda
1894.The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XLV Brothers

DEATH MEANS ONLY A CHANGE OF GARMENT. WHAT OF IT ? THUS FIGHT?

Though this body has its beginning and end, the dweller in the body is infinite and without end. Knowing this, stand up and fight! Not one step back, that is the idea. ... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards....Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.

- Swami Vivekananda
(Delivered In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900)The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita II