If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong… — 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
Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and… — 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 want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We… — 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
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
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
