Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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
We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have to cover everything with the Lord himself, not a false sort of optimism, not by blinding our eyes to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed,… — 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