The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Be strong! … You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Then the gods become no gods; death becomes no death; life becomes no life.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction; and there will come a time when those particles will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Say to your own minds, "I am He, I am He". Let it ring day and night in your minds like a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole… — 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
The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
At the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One through whose command the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Thus he goes beyond the pain of birth and death. Thus he becomes free” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
. . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. .… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord… — 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