1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.

Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?"

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perserverance... tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the perservering soul; at my will mountains will crumble. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.