1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.

Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' "fads" through the greed of getting supporters. Your Âtman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength; if helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

My bones are destined to make corals in the Ganga.

There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them.

Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.