Quotes from Swami Vivekananda

The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

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

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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

All power is His and within His command.

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.