Quotes from Vivekananda

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

They alone live, who live for others.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

The earth is enjoyed by heroes"—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear.

Fill the brain with high thoughts and highest ideals place them day and night before you and out of that will come great work