Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. — 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
Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is… — 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 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
The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship… — 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
I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and… — 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