1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.

Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.

All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.