Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside. — 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
