We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not… — 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
The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free,… — 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
