You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Where it is dark night for the [sense-bound] world, the self controlled [man] is awake.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being. — 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