The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — 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
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be… — 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
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of… — 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
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger — 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
