This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Think always: I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Can I ever be befooled like ordinary people… — 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