1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.

All is bound by the law of causation

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.

What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall I not do the same? I do not care a straw if the body goes. You cannot imagine how happy I am when I find earnest seekers after truth to talk to. In the work of waking up Atman in my fellow men I shall gladly die again and again!

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted , He Gave Me Everything I Needed.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.