Swami Vivekananda: This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more

This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live — Swami Vivekananda

This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

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