He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead."… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants… — 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
To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the… — 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
If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by 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