It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate' — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom. — 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