Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be… — 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
The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power… — 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
Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created… — 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
If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — 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