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There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things. By Swami Vivekananda

There cannot be friendship without equality. By Swami Vivekananda

If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice. By Swami Vivekananda

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being. By Swami Vivekananda

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe. By Swami Vivekananda

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. By Swami Vivekananda

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism. By Swami Vivekananda

Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused. By Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis. By Swami Vivekananda

Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world. By Swami Vivekananda

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge? By Swami Vivekananda

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end. By Swami Vivekananda

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment. By Swami Vivekananda

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin. By Swami Vivekananda

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be. By Swami Vivekananda

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us". By Swami Vivekananda

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self. By Swami Vivekananda

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother! ... By Swami Vivekananda

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. By Swami Vivekananda

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. By Swami Vivekananda

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others. By Swami Vivekananda

Stand alone! See the glory of your own soul, and see that you will have to work. By Swami Vivekananda

Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work. By Swami Vivekananda

All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. By Swami Vivekananda

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. By Swami Vivekananda

He works for work's sake. Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake. By Swami Vivekananda

Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all. By Swami Vivekananda

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later. By Swami Vivekananda

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember. By Swami Vivekananda

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work. By Swami Vivekananda

The real work is in the practice. By Swami Vivekananda

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour ... By Swami Vivekananda

Who can work without any attachment? That is the real question. By Swami Vivekananda

The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much. By Swami Vivekananda

Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit. By Swami Vivekananda

Practise hard; whether you live or die does not matter. You have to plunge in and work, without thinking of the result. By Swami Vivekananda

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. By Swami Vivekananda

[Krishna answers:] The man who has given up all desires, who desires nothing, not even this life, nor freedom, nor gods, nor work, nor anything. By Swami Vivekananda

My Faith is in the Younger Generation, the Modern Generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like Lions. By Swami Vivekananda

Perfection can never be attained by work. By Swami Vivekananda

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery. By Swami Vivekananda

To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you. By Swami Vivekananda

you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work. By Swami Vivekananda

flying from work is never the way to find peace. By Swami Vivekananda

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished. By Swami Vivekananda

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work. By Swami Vivekananda

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. By Swami Vivekananda

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. By Swami Vivekananda

Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience ... By Swami Vivekananda

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. By Swami Vivekananda

When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. By Swami Vivekananda

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit. By Swami Vivekananda

No effect of work can be eternal. By Swami Vivekananda

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way. By Swami Vivekananda

This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger. By Swami Vivekananda

MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness and sweet memories. By Swami Vivekananda

March on, the Lord is our General. By Swami Vivekananda

When he has become perfectly satisfied, he has no more cravings By Swami Vivekananda

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. By Swami Vivekananda

The mind uncontrolled and unguided will drag us down, down, for ever - rend us, kill us; and the mind controlled and guided will save us, free us. By Swami Vivekananda

Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom. By Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon. By Swami Vivekananda

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time. By Swami Vivekananda

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts. By Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds. By Swami Vivekananda

Never mind failures; they are quite natural,they are the beauty of life, these failures.What would be LIFE without them By Swami Vivekananda

Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men? By Swami Vivekananda

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world. By Swami Vivekananda

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed. By Swami Vivekananda

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. By Swami Vivekananda

There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul. By Swami Vivekananda

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to. By Swami Vivekananda

It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach. By Swami Vivekananda

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not. By Swami Vivekananda

There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface. By Swami Vivekananda

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. By Swami Vivekananda

The perfect man sees nothing but God. By Swami Vivekananda

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. By Swami Vivekananda

Bullies are always cowards. By Swami Vivekananda

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it. By Swami Vivekananda

Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. By Swami Vivekananda

All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form". By Swami Vivekananda

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss. By Swami Vivekananda

My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless. By Swami Vivekananda

None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death. By Swami Vivekananda

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music. By Swami Vivekananda

Virtue is the only friend which follows us even beyond the grave. Everything else ends with death. By Swami Vivekananda

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God. By Swami Vivekananda

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. By Swami Vivekananda

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself. By Swami Vivekananda

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference. By Swami Vivekananda

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant. By Swami Vivekananda

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. By Swami Vivekananda

All the weak and undeveloped minds in every religion or country have only one way of loving their own ideal, i.e. by hating every other ideal. By Swami Vivekananda

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India. By Swami Vivekananda

The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. By Swami Vivekananda

I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me. By Swami Vivekananda

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on. By Swami Vivekananda

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals By Swami Vivekananda

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains. By Swami Vivekananda

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control. By Swami Vivekananda

first build up your physique. then only you can get control over the mind. By Swami Vivekananda

What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment. By Swami Vivekananda

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end. By Swami Vivekananda

This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet! By Swami Vivekananda

Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger? By Swami Vivekananda

Not one is constant, but everything is changing. By Swami Vivekananda

It is a constant change. Not one body is constant. By Swami Vivekananda

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show. By Swami Vivekananda

BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one. By Swami Vivekananda

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality. By Swami Vivekananda

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened. By Swami Vivekananda

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand. By Swami Vivekananda

Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman. By Swami Vivekananda

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. By Swami Vivekananda

Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman. By Swami Vivekananda

The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear. By Swami Vivekananda

Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.' By Swami Vivekananda

When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it By Swami Vivekananda

We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do. By Swami Vivekananda

I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ. By Swami Vivekananda

stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely. By Swami Vivekananda

it is only those who persevere to the end that succeed. By Swami Vivekananda

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible. By Swami Vivekananda

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings. By Swami Vivekananda

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel By Swami Vivekananda

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. By Swami Vivekananda

No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want. By Swami Vivekananda

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. By Swami Vivekananda

The causes being known, the knowledge of the effects is sure to follow. By Swami Vivekananda

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. By Swami Vivekananda

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it. By Swami Vivekananda

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world. By Swami Vivekananda

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow. By Swami Vivekananda

The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice. By Swami Vivekananda

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards. By Swami Vivekananda

those who believe in God should pray - not for money, not for health, nor for heaven; pray for knowledge and light; every other prayer is selfish. By Swami Vivekananda

Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him. By Swami Vivekananda

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know. By Swami Vivekananda

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. By Swami Vivekananda

First get rid of the delusion I am the body, then only will we want real knowledge. By Swami Vivekananda

What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge. By Swami Vivekananda

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery. By Swami Vivekananda

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge. By Swami Vivekananda

If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else. By Swami Vivekananda

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood! By Swami Vivekananda

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. By Swami Vivekananda

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it. By Swami Vivekananda

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements. By Swami Vivekananda

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be; By Swami Vivekananda

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it. By Swami Vivekananda

The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion. By Swami Vivekananda

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit. By Swami Vivekananda

The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent. By Swami Vivekananda

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that. By Swami Vivekananda

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation. By Swami Vivekananda

With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God? By Swami Vivekananda

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation. By Swami Vivekananda

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments. By Swami Vivekananda

What we want is progress, development, realisation. By Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation. By Swami Vivekananda

God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love. By Swami Vivekananda

Arise,awake and donot stop until the goal is reached. By Swami Vivekananda

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success ... By Swami Vivekananda

Beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet By Swami Vivekananda

Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing. By Swami Vivekananda

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation. By Swami Vivekananda

Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody. By Swami Vivekananda

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world. By Swami Vivekananda

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection. By Swami Vivekananda

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps! By Swami Vivekananda

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion. By Swami Vivekananda

Every step I take in light is mine forever. By Swami Vivekananda

We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men. By Swami Vivekananda

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds. By Swami Vivekananda

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal. By Swami Vivekananda

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself By Swami Vivekananda

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind. By Swami Vivekananda

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness. By Swami Vivekananda

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it. By Swami Vivekananda

And so, as in every other thing, we are always trying to ignore the standard of another, trying to bind the whole world to our standard. By Swami Vivekananda

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave. By Swami Vivekananda

True progress is slow but sure. By Swami Vivekananda

The light of a lamp does not flicker in a windless place: that is the simile which describes a yogi of one-pointed mind, who meditates upon the Atman. By Swami Vivekananda

However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite. By Swami Vivekananda

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves. By Swami Vivekananda

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. By Swami Vivekananda

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana. By Swami Vivekananda

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words. By Swami Vivekananda

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak By Swami Vivekananda

Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies. By Swami Vivekananda

Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky. By Swami Vivekananda

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend. By Swami Vivekananda

A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built. By Swami Vivekananda

This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages. By Swami Vivekananda

The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man. By Swami Vivekananda

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it. By Swami Vivekananda

Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself. By Swami Vivekananda

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. By Swami Vivekananda

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause. By Swami Vivekananda

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love. By Swami Vivekananda

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that. By Swami Vivekananda

No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste. By Swami Vivekananda

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything. By Swami Vivekananda

There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed. By Swami Vivekananda

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will. By Swami Vivekananda

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him. By Swami Vivekananda

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence By Swami Vivekananda

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom By Swami Vivekananda

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. By Swami Vivekananda

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. By Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. By Swami Vivekananda

The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful. By Swami Vivekananda

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now. By Swami Vivekananda

Business is business, no child's play. By Swami Vivekananda

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life. By Swami Vivekananda

We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end. By Swami Vivekananda

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. By Swami Vivekananda

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better. By Swami Vivekananda

The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death. By Swami Vivekananda

Thoughts are living things - they travel far. By Swami Vivekananda

The road to salvation is through truth. By Swami Vivekananda

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason. By Swami Vivekananda

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world. By Swami Vivekananda

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe. By Swami Vivekananda

This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom By Swami Vivekananda

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom ... Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves. By Swami Vivekananda

All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga - Samadhi. By Swami Vivekananda

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! By Swami Vivekananda

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India. By Swami Vivekananda

The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts? By Swami Vivekananda

It is not the building, but the people that make a church, and that is what we always forget. By Swami Vivekananda

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished - mountains can be crumbled into atoms. By Swami Vivekananda

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love. By Swami Vivekananda

Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide! By Swami Vivekananda

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration. By Swami Vivekananda

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears. By Swami Vivekananda

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling. By Swami Vivekananda

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing. By Swami Vivekananda

External nature is only internal nature writ large. By Swami Vivekananda

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India. By Swami Vivekananda

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills. By Swami Vivekananda

Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so. By Swami Vivekananda

The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart. By Swami Vivekananda

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed. By Swami Vivekananda

Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others. By Swami Vivekananda

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. By Swami Vivekananda

When you step beyond thought and intellect and all reasoning, then you have made the first step towards God; and that is the beginning of life. By Swami Vivekananda

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there. By Swami Vivekananda

Freedom is the first condition of growth. What you do not make free, will never grow. By Swami Vivekananda

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion. By Swami Vivekananda

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels. By Swami Vivekananda

Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world. By Swami Vivekananda

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord. By Swami Vivekananda

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy. By Swami Vivekananda

The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul. By Swami Vivekananda

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe. By Swami Vivekananda

According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul. By Swami Vivekananda

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. By Swami Vivekananda

Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows. By Swami Vivekananda

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you. By Swami Vivekananda

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy. By Swami Vivekananda

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow. By Swami Vivekananda

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry. By Swami Vivekananda

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow. By Swami Vivekananda

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe. By Swami Vivekananda

Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God. By Swami Vivekananda

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. By Swami Vivekananda

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool. By Swami Vivekananda

Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. By Swami Vivekananda

You need not worry or make yourself sleepless about the world; it will go on without you. By Swami Vivekananda

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same. By Swami Vivekananda

Talk to yourself at least once in a Day, otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World. By Swami Vivekananda

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. By Swami Vivekananda

Desire, ignorance, and inequality - this is the trinity of bondage. By Swami Vivekananda

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain. By Swami Vivekananda

Take risks in life, if u win u can lead, if u loose u can guide By Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality is the science of the Soul. By Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have. By Swami Vivekananda

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control. By Swami Vivekananda

It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes. By Swami Vivekananda

There was never a time when we did not exist. By Swami Vivekananda

There will never be a time when we shall not exist. By Swami Vivekananda

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus. By Swami Vivekananda

My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind. By Swami Vivekananda

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God? By Swami Vivekananda

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy. By Swami Vivekananda

In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth. By Swami Vivekananda

The Yogi believes in psychic control and the conquest of internal nature. "How By Swami Vivekananda

Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man. By Swami Vivekananda

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another. By Swami Vivekananda

We are like the caterpillar which takes the thread out of his own body and of that makes the cocoon, and behold, he is caught. By Swami Vivekananda

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles. By Swami Vivekananda

You are all bound by the law of Karma, the Upanishads admit, but they declare the way out. By Swami Vivekananda

The Gita is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Vedas and the Upanishads. By Swami Vivekananda

Great difference between the priests and the Upanishads. The Upanishads say, renounce. By Swami Vivekananda

The Gita is a commentary on the Upanishads. The Upanishads are the Bible of India. By Swami Vivekananda

Onward, my brave boys - money or no money - men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible. By Swami Vivekananda

When the body is sufficiently controlled, we can attempt the manipulation of the mind. By Swami Vivekananda

See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal). By Swami Vivekananda

The mind is in its own nature when it is calm. The moment you can calm it, that [very] moment you will know the truth. By Swami Vivekananda

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. By Swami Vivekananda

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve. By Swami Vivekananda

Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams! By Swami Vivekananda

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. By Swami Vivekananda

God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed. By Swami Vivekananda

You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence ... By Swami Vivekananda

We only know the universe from the point of view of beings with five senses. Suppose we obtain another sense, the whole universe must change for us. By Swami Vivekananda

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world. By Swami Vivekananda

Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph. By Swami Vivekananda

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. By Swami Vivekananda

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body. By Swami Vivekananda

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls. By Swami Vivekananda

All misery and pain come from attachment. By Swami Vivekananda

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer. By Swami Vivekananda

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. By Swami Vivekananda

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. By Swami Vivekananda

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. By Swami Vivekananda

This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love. By Swami Vivekananda

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside. By Swami Vivekananda

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! By Swami Vivekananda

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth. By Swami Vivekananda

We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment By Swami Vivekananda

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. By Swami Vivekananda

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else. By Swami Vivekananda

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. By Swami Vivekananda

No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them. By Swami Vivekananda

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative. By Swami Vivekananda

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races. By Swami Vivekananda

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. By Swami Vivekananda

That must have been the character of the man. By Swami Vivekananda

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. By Swami Vivekananda

Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly. By Swami Vivekananda

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. By Swami Vivekananda

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves. By Swami Vivekananda

Everyone goes with the flow ... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life ... By Swami Vivekananda

Do not disturb the faith of any ... Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others. By Swami Vivekananda

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds. By Swami Vivekananda

Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success. By Swami Vivekananda

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart. By Swami Vivekananda

In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours By Swami Vivekananda

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. By Swami Vivekananda

He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy. By Swami Vivekananda

The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health. By Swami Vivekananda

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna. By Swami Vivekananda

Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom By Swami Vivekananda

Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal. By Swami Vivekananda

The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation. By Swami Vivekananda

Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself. By Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need. By Swami Vivekananda

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause. By Swami Vivekananda

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you. By Swami Vivekananda

The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks. By Swami Vivekananda

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves. By 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. By Swami Vivekananda

All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. By Swami Vivekananda

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. By Swami Vivekananda

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite. By Swami Vivekananda

God did not give me everything that i wanted. But, He gave me everything that i needed! By Swami Vivekananda

Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature. By Swami Vivekananda

Infinite strength is religion and God. By Swami Vivekananda

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal. By Swami Vivekananda

Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough! By Swami Vivekananda

Let miseries come in millions of rivers and happiness in hundreds! I am no slave to misery! I am no slave to happiness! By Swami Vivekananda

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it. By Swami Vivekananda

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point By Swami Vivekananda

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. By Swami Vivekananda

Everything is infectious in this world, good or bad. By Swami Vivekananda

The world is neither good nor bad; the world is the world. The By Swami Vivekananda

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it. By Swami Vivekananda

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. By Swami Vivekananda

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal. By Swami Vivekananda

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe. By Swami Vivekananda

The easiest way to make ourselves happy is to see that others are happy. By Swami Vivekananda

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward. By Swami Vivekananda

Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep? By Swami Vivekananda

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything. By Swami Vivekananda

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course. By Swami Vivekananda

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent. By Swami Vivekananda

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path By Swami Vivekananda

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. By Swami Vivekananda

The end and aim of all science is to find the unity, the One out of which the manifold is being manufactured, that One existing as many. By Swami Vivekananda

The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin. By Swami Vivekananda

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. By Swami Vivekananda

There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God. By Swami Vivekananda

This rascal ego must be obliterated. By Swami Vivekananda

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature. By Swami Vivekananda

The Swami Vivekananda lectured for the first time from a public platform on September 11th, 1893 and on July 4th, 1902, he passed away. By Swami Vivekananda

The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve. By Swami Vivekananda

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. By Swami Vivekananda

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language. By Swami Vivekananda

There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One. By Swami Vivekananda

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected. By Swami Vivekananda

Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working By Swami Vivekananda

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion ... By Swami Vivekananda

One moment of company with the holy makes a ship to cross this ocean of life. Such is the power of association. By Swami Vivekananda

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. By Swami Vivekananda

The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain. By Swami Vivekananda

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet. By Swami Vivekananda

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. By Swami Vivekananda

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties. By Swami Vivekananda

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money. By Swami Vivekananda

Misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else. By Swami Vivekananda

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord! By Swami Vivekananda

If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal. By Swami Vivekananda

"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images. By Swami Vivekananda

Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another. By Swami Vivekananda

The development of man is a return to an original perfection. By Swami Vivekananda

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ. By Swami Vivekananda

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. By Swami Vivekananda

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. By Swami Vivekananda

Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. By Swami Vivekananda

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall. By Swami Vivekananda

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity. By Swami Vivekananda

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes. By Swami Vivekananda

Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself." By Swami Vivekananda

External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. By Swami Vivekananda

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself ... By Swami Vivekananda

He alone is worshiping God who serves all beings. By Swami Vivekananda

He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart. By Swami Vivekananda

Free thyself from the mighty attraction-The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex.Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry! ... By Swami Vivekananda

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain. By Swami Vivekananda

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people. By Swami Vivekananda

Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it. By Swami Vivekananda

Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction. By Swami Vivekananda

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God. By Swami Vivekananda

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up. By Swami Vivekananda

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. By Swami Vivekananda

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. By Swami Vivekananda

Change is the nature of all objective things. By Swami Vivekananda

Don't give any chance for others to stole your smile.Because,it's the most valuable asset than anything in your life! By Swami Vivekananda

We must patiently practice every day. By Swami Vivekananda

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative. By Swami Vivekananda

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire. By Swami Vivekananda

There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar. By Swami Vivekananda

The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles. By Swami Vivekananda

No freedom without renunciation. By Swami Vivekananda

God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed. By Swami Vivekananda

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die. By Swami Vivekananda

The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. By Swami Vivekananda

Man is greater than the gods. By Swami Vivekananda

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces. By Swami Vivekananda

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion. By Swami Vivekananda

Before we can believe in God, we must first believe in ourselves. By Swami Vivekananda

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap. By Swami Vivekananda

Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change. By Swami Vivekananda

If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I will. By Swami Vivekananda

stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause. By Swami Vivekananda

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory. By Swami Vivekananda

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written. By Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste. By Swami Vivekananda

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone. By Swami Vivekananda

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit. By Swami Vivekananda

What power is higher than the power of purity? By Swami Vivekananda

My bones are destined to make corals in the Ganga. By Swami Vivekananda

We must get out of materialism. By Swami Vivekananda

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism. By Swami Vivekananda

There is salvation only for the brave. By Swami Vivekananda

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. By Swami Vivekananda

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship By Swami Vivekananda

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul. By Swami Vivekananda

Then you will become a man of firm will (note 19). By Swami Vivekananda

The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother. By Swami Vivekananda

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India. By Swami Vivekananda

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault. By Swami Vivekananda

Above all, India is the land of religion. By Swami Vivekananda

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience. By Swami Vivekananda

Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance. By Swami Vivekananda

Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want. By Swami Vivekananda

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it. By Swami Vivekananda

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only. By Swami Vivekananda

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply. By Swami Vivekananda

struggle is the life of sucess By Swami Vivekananda

All real progress must be slow. By Swami Vivekananda

Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination. By Swami Vivekananda

Everybody is changing. By Swami Vivekananda

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. By Swami Vivekananda

The best guide in life is strength. By Swami Vivekananda

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change. By Swami Vivekananda

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men? By Swami Vivekananda

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse. By Swami Vivekananda

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. By Swami Vivekananda

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say. By Swami Vivekananda

Your body is of no more value than that of John. By Swami Vivekananda

There is no end to the power a man can obtain. By Swami Vivekananda

All progression is in the relative world. By Swami Vivekananda

One link in a chain explains the infinite chain. By Swami Vivekananda

Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute. By Swami Vivekananda

Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrument to help us see God. By Swami Vivekananda

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country. By Swami Vivekananda

A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil. By Swami Vivekananda

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish. By Swami Vivekananda

Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies. By Swami Vivekananda

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya. By Swami Vivekananda

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art. By Swami Vivekananda

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles. By Swami Vivekananda

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. By Swami Vivekananda

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal. By Swami Vivekananda

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity By Swami Vivekananda

By all means make a start - even if it's for the wrong reason. By Swami Vivekananda

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer. By Swami Vivekananda

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good By Swami Vivekananda

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years. By Swami Vivekananda

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God. By Swami Vivekananda

There is a conflict in Arjuna's heart between his emotionalism and his duty. By Swami Vivekananda

The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul. By Swami Vivekananda

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion. By Swami Vivekananda

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates. By Swami Vivekananda

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air. By Swami Vivekananda

Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead. By Swami Vivekananda

As all the rivers of the world constantly pour their waters into the ocean, but the ocean's grand, majestic nature remains undisturbed and unchanged, By Swami Vivekananda

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate' ... It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate' By Swami Vivekananda

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress. By Swami Vivekananda

ARISE, AWAKE AND STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED By Swami Vivekananda