Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . . — 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
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Let miseries come in millions of rivers and happiness in hundreds! I am no slave to misery! I am no slave to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“A man is said to be [illumined] if his will has become firm, if his mind is not disturbed by misery, if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The Upanishads point out that the goal of man is neither misery nor happiness, but we have to be master of that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest… — 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
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