1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!...

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built. Politics, power, and even intellect form a secondary consideration here. Religion, therefore, is the one consideration in India.

What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes.

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions

What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.

Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all: love.

You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.