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
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
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
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
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
Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery. — 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
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — 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
What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — 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
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation.… — 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
With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger… — 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
If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next… — 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
Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one… — 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
It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune… — 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
