1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various forces resolve into that Prana, and the vibration of the Prana ceases. In that state it remains until the beginning of the next cycle. Prana then begins to vibrate, and that vibration acts upon the Akasha, and all these forms are thrown out in regular succession.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.