Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life... — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the… — 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
Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that… — 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
Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Real existence, real knowledge, and real love are eternally connected with one another, the three in one: where one of them is,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart… — 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
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
![“All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each…” quote by Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5e/swami-vivekananda-53_activity_all-manifest-life-seems-to-require-a-per_1725323.jpg)
![“The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.” quote by Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eef/swami-vivekananda-53_body_the-sign-of-vigour-the-sign-of-life-the_1806344.jpg)
