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When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it
— Swami Vivekananda
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
— Swami Vivekananda
All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".
— Swami Vivekananda
Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already.You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.
— Swami Vivekananda
Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe.
— Swami Vivekananda
Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
— Swami Vivekananda
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
— Swami Vivekananda
It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.
— Swami Vivekananda
As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
— Swami Vivekananda
If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.
— Swami Vivekananda
Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.
— Swami Vivekananda
Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.
— Swami Vivekananda
Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.
— Swami Vivekananda
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.
— Swami Vivekananda
give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers,
— Swami Vivekananda
Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.
— Swami Vivekananda
We are like the caterpillar which takes the thread out of his own body and of that makes the cocoon, and behold, he is caught.
— Swami Vivekananda
Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.
— Swami Vivekananda
And has found that the world, and the gods, and heaven are ... within his own Self.
— Swami Vivekananda
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
— Swami Vivekananda
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.
— Swami Vivekananda
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak
— Swami Vivekananda
Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.
— Swami Vivekananda
Change can only be in the limited.
— Swami Vivekananda
Talk to yourself at least once in a Day, otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
— Swami Vivekananda
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
— Swami Vivekananda
Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself
— Swami Vivekananda
We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Absolute can never be thought of.
— Swami Vivekananda
Perfection can never be attained by work.
— Swami Vivekananda
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.
— Swami Vivekananda
The law of Karma is the law of causation.
— Swami Vivekananda
Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.
— Swami Vivekananda
Misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else.
— Swami Vivekananda
Imagination is the door to inspiration and the basis of all thought.
— Swami Vivekananda
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
— Swami Vivekananda
Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?
— Swami Vivekananda
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.
— Swami Vivekananda
When he has become perfectly satisfied, he has no more cravings
— Swami Vivekananda
It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.
— Swami Vivekananda
The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.
— Swami Vivekananda
BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.
— Swami Vivekananda
Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.
— Swami Vivekananda
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
— Swami Vivekananda
I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.
— Swami Vivekananda
It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.
— Swami Vivekananda
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.
— Swami Vivekananda
Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.
— Swami Vivekananda
The road to salvation is through truth.
— Swami Vivekananda
My Faith is in the Younger Generation, the Modern Generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like Lions.
— Swami Vivekananda
According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.
— Swami Vivekananda
Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.
— Swami Vivekananda
Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.
— Swami Vivekananda
Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.
— Swami Vivekananda
The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.
— Swami Vivekananda
Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.
— Swami Vivekananda
What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.
— Swami Vivekananda
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals
— Swami Vivekananda
There cannot be friendship without equality.
— Swami Vivekananda
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
— Swami Vivekananda
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
— Swami Vivekananda
Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.
— Swami Vivekananda
We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.
— Swami Vivekananda
Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.
— Swami Vivekananda
ARISE, AWAKE AND STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED
— Swami Vivekananda
Beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet
— Swami Vivekananda
Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.
— Swami Vivekananda
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[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
— Swami Vivekananda
Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.
— Swami Vivekananda
The perfect man sees nothing but God.
— Swami Vivekananda
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
— Swami Vivekananda
Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.
— Swami Vivekananda
MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness and sweet memories.
— Swami Vivekananda
This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.
— Swami Vivekananda
Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
— Swami Vivekananda
There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface.
— Swami Vivekananda
He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
— Swami Vivekananda
The earth is enjoyed by heroes
— Swami Vivekananda
The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.
— Swami Vivekananda
Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ... but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.
— Swami Vivekananda
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[Krishna answers:] The man who has given up all desires, who desires nothing, not even this life, nor freedom, nor gods, nor work, nor anything.
— Swami Vivekananda
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
— Swami Vivekananda
Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.
— Swami Vivekananda
Attachment comes only where we expect a return.
— Swami Vivekananda
The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.
— Swami Vivekananda
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
— Swami Vivekananda
We are all born cowards.
— Swami Vivekananda
It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.
— Swami Vivekananda
Arise,awake and donot stop until the goal is reached.
— Swami Vivekananda
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.
— Swami Vivekananda
There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.
— Swami Vivekananda
This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
— Swami Vivekananda
The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.
— Swami Vivekananda
Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.
— Swami Vivekananda
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
— Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
— Swami Vivekananda