Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through… — 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
Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is entirely wrong to think that we have done, or can do, good to the world, or to think that we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — 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
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths… — 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
