1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be;

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as "worship" in case we believe in a Personal God. Here we give up all the fruits our work unto the Lord, and worshipping Him thus, we have no right to expect anything from man kind for the work we do.