First, believe in the world-that there is meaning behind everything. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells-that there is nothing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
