1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

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

None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

There cannot be friendship without equality.

Doing good to others is the #‎ one great Universal Religion

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.

There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.