So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail. — 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
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
Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in… — 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
Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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
As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . . — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death. — 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
Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in… — 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