“Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”Swami Vivekananda
“Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of yoga should be at once rejected. 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.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.”Swami Vivekananda
“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”Swami Vivekananda Source: Letters of Swami Vivekananda
“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”Swami Vivekananda
“Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!”Swami Vivekananda Source: Raja-Yoga
“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”Swami Vivekananda
“Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
““Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life — face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“This I have seen in life—those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“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.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom
“To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.”Swami Vivekananda Pearls of Wisdom