1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.

We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.

Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.