--- title: "28 Feet Quotes By Swami Vivekananda" description: "28 Feet quotes by Swami Vivekananda. Plus more from Swami Vivekananda and more Feet sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35d/swami-vivekananda-53_be-a-man_we-have-wept-enough-no-more-weeping-but_1572202.jpg" --- > [We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/we-have-wept-enough-no-more-weeping-but-stand-on-feet-and-be-men/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35d/swami-vivekananda-53_be-a-man_we-have-wept-enough-no-more-weeping-but_1572202.jpg) > [beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/beleive-in-yourself-and-the-world-will-be-at-your-feet/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5de/swami-vivekananda-53_feet_beleive-in-yourself-and-the-world-will-b_1358644.jpg) > [Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/believe-in-yourself-and-the-world-will-be-at-your-feet/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d42/swami-vivekananda-53_believe_believe-in-yourself-and-the-world-will-b_2561113.jpg) > [The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-highest-manifestation-of-strength-is-to-keep-ourselves-calm-and/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d0/swami-vivekananda-53_calm_the-highest-manifestation-of-strength-is_1859020.jpg) > [Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/anything-that-brings-spiritual-mental-or-physical-weakness-touch-it/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/391/swami-vivekananda-53_feet_anything-that-brings-spiritual-mental-or_2923069.jpg) > [You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/you-will-be-nearer-to-heaven-through-foot-ball-than-through-study-of/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/swami-vivekananda-53_balls_you-will-be-nearer-to-heaven-through-foo_1315421.jpg) > [This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/this-is-the-central-idea-of-the-gita-to-be-calm-and-steadfast-in-all/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee5/swami-vivekananda-53_body_this-is-the-central-idea-of-the-gita-to_3017027.jpg) > [What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/what-makes-you-weep-my-friend-in-you-is-all-power-summon-up-your-all/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/swami-vivekananda-53_feet_what-makes-you-weep-my-friend-in-you-is_2594073.jpg) > [In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/in-whatever-name-or-form-they-are-offered-all-these-flowers-are-laid/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b06/swami-vivekananda-53_feet_in-whatever-name-or-form-they-are-offere_1719464.jpg) > [Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/had-i-lived-in-palestine-in-the-days-of-jesus-of-nazareth-i-would/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25e/swami-vivekananda-53_blood_had-i-lived-in-palestine-in-the-days-of_1092609.jpg) > [The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-brain-and-muscles-must-develop-simultaneously-iron-nerves-with-an/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/110/swami-vivekananda-53_brain_the-brain-and-muscles-must-develop-simul_104920.jpg) > [Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/despite-the-many-iniquities-that-have-found-entrance-into-the/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/swami-vivekananda-53_blessed_despite-the-many-iniquities-that-have-fo_2762555.jpg) > [Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/struggle-hard-and-then-if-you-do-not-succeed-you-are-not-to-blame-let/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d3/swami-vivekananda-53_blame_struggle-hard-and-then-if-you-do-not-suc_1341324.jpg) > [Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/let-people-say-whatever-they-like-stick-to-your-own-convictions-and/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/swami-vivekananda-53_assured_let-people-say-whatever-they-like-stick_3216896.jpg) > [There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding - demanding the Highest. The true devotees of the Mother are as hard,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-must-be-no-fear-no-begging-but-demanding-demanding-the-highest/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03d/swami-vivekananda-53_adamant_there-must-be-no-fear-no-begging-but-dem_1124290.jpg) > [You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/you-cannot-take-away-one-atom-of-matter-or-one-foot-pound-of-force/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/swami-vivekananda-53_add_you-cannot-take-away-one-atom-of-matter_627451.jpg) > [A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/a-golden-chain-is-as-much-a-chain-as-an-iron-one-shri-ramakrishna/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77b/swami-vivekananda-53_bondage_a-golden-chain-is-as-much-a-chain-as-an_814528.jpg) > [Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/who-cares-for-your-bhakti-and-mukti-who-cares-what-your-scriptures/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/swami-vivekananda-53_be-a-man_who-cares-for-your-bhakti-and-mukti-who_603642.jpg) > [What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/what-we-want-is-muscles-of-iron-and-nerves-of-steel-we-have-wept-long/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fb/swami-vivekananda-53_be-a-man_what-we-want-is-muscles-of-iron-and-nerv_3213067.jpg) > [That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/that-truth-which-you-swallow-from-others-will-not-be-yours-you-have/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d06/swami-vivekananda-53_doctrine_that-truth-which-you-swallow-from-others_2214711.jpg) > [For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/for-the-next-fifty-years-this-alone-shall-be-our-keynote-this-our/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acf/swami-vivekananda-53_able_for-the-next-fifty-years-this-alone-shal_863949.jpg) > [Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/everything-that-can-weaken-us-as-a-race-we-have-had-for-the-last/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/swami-vivekananda-53_blood_everything-that-can-weaken-us-as-a-race_1864935.jpg) > [There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-is-no-god-separate-from-you-no-god-higher-than-you-the-real-you/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bea/swami-vivekananda-53_creating_there-is-no-god-separate-from-you-no-god_1536834.jpg) > [He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/he-who-is-the-servant-of-all-is-their-true-master-he-never-becomes-a/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfe/swami-vivekananda-53_consideration_he-who-is-the-servant-of-all-is-their-tr_41870.jpg) > [Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/liberty-is-the-first-condition-of-growth-your-ancestors-gave-every/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/837/swami-vivekananda-53_ancestor_liberty-is-the-first-condition-of-growth_80706.jpg) > [This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/this-is-the-ancient-land-where-wisdom-made-its-home-before-it-went/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07b/swami-vivekananda-53_ancient_this-is-the-ancient-land-where-wisdom-ma_1193030.jpg) > [Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/feel-my-children-feel-feel-for-the-poor-the-ignorant-the-downtrodden/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da5/swami-vivekananda-53_brain_feel-my-children-feel-feel-for-the-poor_1691011.jpg) > [I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/i-hear-western-people-say-the-world-was-created-for-us-if-tigers/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5a/swami-vivekananda-53_animal_i-hear-western-people-say-the-world-was_749319.jpg) ## Other authors on Feet ## More by Swami Vivekananda > [Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/every-action-that-helps-us-manifest-our-divine-nature-more-and-more/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Holiness sincerity, and faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/holiness-sincerity-and-faith/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-hindus-have-a-peculiar-slovenliness-in-business-matters-not-being/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Renunciation is in our blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/renunciation-is-in-our-blood/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/let-positive-strong-helpful-thoughts-enter-into-your-brains-from-very/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/where-can-we-go-to-find-god-if-we-cannot-see-him-in-our-own-hearts/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-the-free-alone-which-never-changes-and-the-unchangeable-alone/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Above all, India is the land of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/above-all-india-is-the-land-of-religion/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-awakening-of-the-soul-to-its-bondage-and-its-effort-to-stand-up/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-the-prana-that-is-manifesting-as-motion/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/though-an-atom-is-invisible-unthinkable-yet-in-it-are-the-whole-power/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/nothing-can-be-produced-without-a-cause-and-the-effect-is-but-the/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/all-the-strength-and-succour-you-want-is-within-yourselves-therefore/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/be-brave-be-strong-be-fearless-once-you-have-taken-up-the-spiritual/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-is-a-continuity-of-mind-as-the-yogis-call-it-the-mind-is/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feet/swami-vivekananda/#itemlist", "name": "28 Feet Quotes By Swami Vivekananda", "numberOfItems": 28, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We have wept enough. 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Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/despite-the-many-iniquities-that-have-found-entrance-into-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/swami-vivekananda-53_blessed_despite-the-many-iniquities-that-have-fo_2762555.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/swami-vivekananda-53_blessed_despite-the-many-iniquities-that-have-fo_2762555.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/swami-vivekananda-53_blessed_despite-the-many-iniquities-that-have-fo_2762555.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue…” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. 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The true devotees of the Mother are as hard, as adamant and as fearless as lions. They are not in the least upset if the whole universe suddenly crumbles into dust at their feet. Make Her listen to you. None of that cringing to Mother! 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From previous involution.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/you-cannot-take-away-one-atom-of-matter-or-one-foot-pound-of-force/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/swami-vivekananda-53_add_you-cannot-take-away-one-atom-of-matter_627451.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/swami-vivekananda-53_add_you-cannot-take-away-one-atom-of-matter_627451.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/swami-vivekananda-53_add_you-cannot-take-away-one-atom-of-matter_627451.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom…” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. 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It is man-making education all round that we want.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/what-we-want-is-muscles-of-iron-and-nerves-of-steel-we-have-wept-long/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fb/swami-vivekananda-53_be-a-man_what-we-want-is-muscles-of-iron-and-nerv_3213067.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fb/swami-vivekananda-53_be-a-man_what-we-want-is-muscles-of-iron-and-nerv_3213067.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fb/swami-vivekananda-53_be-a-man_what-we-want-is-muscles-of-iron-and-nerv_3213067.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. 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Sameness is the sign of death.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/that-truth-which-you-swallow-from-others-will-not-be-yours-you-have/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d06/swami-vivekananda-53_doctrine_that-truth-which-you-swallow-from-others_2214711.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d06/swami-vivekananda-53_doctrine_that-truth-which-you-swallow-from-others_2214711.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d06/swami-vivekananda-53_doctrine_that-truth-which-you-swallow-from-others_2214711.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for…” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 21, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - \"everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything.\" All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? 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Let all other vain…” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 22, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/everything-that-can-weaken-us-as-a-race-we-have-had-for-the-last/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/swami-vivekananda-53_blood_everything-that-can-weaken-us-as-a-race_1864935.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/swami-vivekananda-53_blood_everything-that-can-weaken-us-as-a-race_1864935.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/swami-vivekananda-53_blood_everything-that-can-weaken-us-as-a-race_1864935.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. 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We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-is-no-god-separate-from-you-no-god-higher-than-you-the-real-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bea/swami-vivekananda-53_creating_there-is-no-god-separate-from-you-no-god_1536834.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bea/swami-vivekananda-53_creating_there-is-no-god-separate-from-you-no-god_1536834.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bea/swami-vivekananda-53_creating_there-is-no-god-separate-from-you-no-god_1536834.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. 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He whose love knows no end and never stops to consider high or low has the whole world lying at his feet.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/he-who-is-the-servant-of-all-is-their-true-master-he-never-becomes-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfe/swami-vivekananda-53_consideration_he-who-is-the-servant-of-all-is-their-tr_41870.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfe/swami-vivekananda-53_consideration_he-who-is-the-servant-of-all-is-their-tr_41870.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfe/swami-vivekananda-53_consideration_he-who-is-the-servant-of-all-is-their-tr_41870.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He who is the servant of all is their true master. 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Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/liberty-is-the-first-condition-of-growth-your-ancestors-gave-every/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/837/swami-vivekananda-53_ancestor_liberty-is-the-first-condition-of-growth_80706.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/837/swami-vivekananda-53_ancestor_liberty-is-the-first-condition-of-growth_80706.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/837/swami-vivekananda-53_ancestor_liberty-is-the-first-condition-of-growth_80706.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Liberty is the first condition of growth. 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