Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Weak or wicked, great or small, in men and in animal, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can… — 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 Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
![“Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then…” quote by Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e85/swami-vivekananda-53_animal_is-enjoyment-the-goal-of-life-were-it-so_2304269.jpg)
