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
With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God? — 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
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
All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their… — 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
We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and… — 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
. . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. .… — 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
Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of… — 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
Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery?… — 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
Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion. — 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
