Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the… — 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
Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within… — 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
Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . . — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What… — 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
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — 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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