Swami Vivekananda: Trending quotes (page 9)

“There is only one sin. That is weakness…. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.”

“It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.”

“The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.”

“One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.”

“There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion — I am God — cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.”

“If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.”

“There cannot be friendship without equality.”

“If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.”

“Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you still dare to do what you think is right?”

“However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.”

“Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.”

“No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.”

“The important thing is: how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter—as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being.”

“Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”

“The Vedanta teaches that Nirvana can be attained here and now, that we do not have to wait for death to reach it. Nirvana is the realization of the Self; and after having once known that, if only for an instant, never again can one be deluded by the mirage of personality.”

“Go on saying, “I am free.” Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, “I am bound.””

“Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.”

“All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.”

“Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. If we can bring ourselves down by our karma, surely it is in our power to raise ourselves by our own karma.”