Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”

“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”

“That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.”

“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.”

“The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.”

“There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.”

“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”

“The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.”

“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”

“BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.”

“As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.”

“IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love’s sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - ’love’ unselfishly for love’s sake.”

“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

“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”

“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”

“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

“God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted , He Gave Me Everything I Needed.”

“When I asked god for peace, he showed me how to help others.”

“My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.”

“The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.”