Swami Vivekananda Quotes

None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.

Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?

Whatever you think, that you will be.

This is the great fact: strength is life.

With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough.

If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.

We are what our considered opinion abide through us; so put up with assiduousness about what you storage. Natter are sub-. Line live; they travel far.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

The sign of life is strength and growth.

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?

Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.

Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.

Motion is the sign of life.

Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.

Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.

All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana.

Everything has a cause.

Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside.

Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.