1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.

Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

Everything has a cause.

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

...oneness is the secret to everything.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.