The Gospel of Strength - Swami Vivekananda

Arise, awake! Awake from this hypnotism of weakness. None is really
weak; the soul is infinite, omnipotent and omniscient. Stand up,
assert yourself, procalim the God within you, do not deny Him! Too
much of inactivity, too much of weakness, too much of hypnotism has
been and is upon our race... De-hypnotise yourselves. The way to do
that is found in your own sacred books. Teach yourselves, teach
everyone his real nature, call upon the sleeping soul and see how it
awakens. Power will come, glory will come, goodness will come, purity
will come, and everything that is excellent will come when this
sleeping soul is roused to self-conscious activitiy.

The more I live, the more I become convinced everyday that every
human being is dinine. In no man or woman, however vile, does that
divinity die.

Studying the external alone, man begins to feel himself to be
nothing. These vast powers of nature, these tremendous changes
occurring - whole communities wiped off the face of the earth in a
twinkling of time, one volcanic eruption shattering to pieces whole
continents - perceiving and studying these things, man begins to feel
himself weak. Therefore it is not the study of external nature that
makes one strong. But there is the internal nature of man - a million
times more powerful than any volcanic eruption or any law of nature -
which conquers nature, triumphs over all its laws. And that alone
teaches man what he is.