Quotes from Swami Vivekananda

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Onward, my brave boys - money or no money - men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say "me" and "mine"; they are only blessed in being instruments

You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

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.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life.

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

Give love, give help, give service, and give any little thing you can, but keep out barter.

Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.

Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.