Quotes from Swami Vivekananda

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.

Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.