I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The mother and the father are the causes of this body; so a man must undergo a thousand troubles in order to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding - demanding the Highest. The true devotees of the Mother are as hard,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain.… — 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
It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the… — 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