You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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
Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in… — 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
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing,… — 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
Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time;… — 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
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain… — 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 moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Often people enter into things they have not the means to accomplish, with the result that they cheat others to attain their… — 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
Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his… — 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
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
