Quotes from Swami Vivekananda

So never mind these failures, these little backslidings. Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. . . . There is infinite life before the soul. Take your time and you will achieve your end.

find that even this idea of duty undergoes change, and that the greatest

be otherwise? One must first know how to work

Swami Vivekananda LECTURES ON THE BHAGAVAD GITA

You cannot die nor can I.

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: To think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but a series of paintings — scenes on a canvas — of which I am the witness.

Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.

It is the touch of the senses that brings all this quality of existence: heat and cold, pleasure and pain.

Don't give any chance for others to stole your smile.Because,it's the most valuable asset than anything in your life!

It is the coward and the fool who says, 'This is fate.'" But it is the strong man who stands up and says, "I will make my fate.

Your body is of no more value than that of John.

Slowly and gradually we are to train ourselves. It is no joke — not a question of a day, or years, or maybe of births. Never mind! The pull must go on. Knowingly, voluntarily, the pull must go on. Inch by inch we will gain ground. We will begin to feel and get real possessions, which no one can take away from us — the wealth that no man can take, the wealth that nobody can destroy, the joy that no misery can hurt any more.

Don't do anything more for your body than you do for John.

The infinite divinity is unmanifested; it will have to be manifested. This is spirituality, the science of the soul.

Though this body has its beginning and end, the dweller in the body is infinite and without end" (note 7).

with all our feelings and action — our tears and our smiles, our joys and our griefs, our weeping and our laughter, our curses and our blessings, our praises and our blames — every one of these we may find, if we calmly study our own selves, to have been brought out from within ourselves by so many blows. The result is what we are. All these blows taken together are called Karma — work, action.

The only way to rise is by doing the duty next to us, and thus gathering strength go on until we reach the highest state.

Knowing this, stand up and fight!

Work incessantly, but give up all attachment to work." Do

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy — by one, or more, or all of these — and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

Knowing that mother and father are the visible representatives of God, the householder, always and by all means, must please them. If the mother is pleased, and the father, God is pleased with the man. That child is really a good child who never speaks harsh words to his parents.

nor freedom, nor gods, nor work, nor anything.

Existence can never be non-existence, neither can non-existence ever become existence. ... Know, therefore, that that which pervades all this universe is without beginning or end. It is unchangeable. There is nothing in the universe that can change [the Changeless]. Though this body has its beginning and end, the dweller in the body is infinite and without end