How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. — 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
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot… — 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
