We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that. — 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
The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; it is a continuous friction otherwise.” — 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
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