My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy… — 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
We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We can form no idea of the millions of pounds that are spent every year in the making of dress in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in… — 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
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