As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. — 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
Give love, give help, give service, and give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a… — 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
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
Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference… — 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
We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Weak or wicked, great or small, in men and in animal, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. — 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
Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it… — 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
