The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good… — 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
I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! — 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
