ONE MUST SAVE ONESELF UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

In my opinion, if you have to go away for a change, the sooner the better. But, pardon me, you have a tendency to expect that everything should fit in exactly with your requirements, but unfortunately, such a state of things is very rare in this world. " — One must save oneself under any circumstances." "Lord have mercy", is all right, but He helps him who helps himself. If you simply try to save your purse, will the Lord arrange the change for you by drawing on His ancestral capital?

- Swami Vivekananda
5th January, 1890. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles -Second Series/XV Sir