Viveka's Quotes

Inspirational Quotes By Swami Vivekananda


" I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England.
After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me. "

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Who will give the world light? Sacrifice in the past has been the Law, it will be, alas, for ages to come. The earth's bravest and best will have to sacrifice themselves for the good of many, for the welfare of all.

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Truth, purity, and unselfishness - whenever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

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Tell the man his defaults directly but praise his virtues before others.

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When the world is the end and God the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.

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The sage is often ignorant of physical science, because he reads the wrong book- the book within; and the scientist is too often ignorant of religion, because he reads the wrong book- the book without.

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Do one thing at a time and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

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Where there is life, there will be death; so get away from life if you want to get rid of death.

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Records of great spiritual men of the past do us no good whatever except that they urge us onward to do the same, to experience religion ourselves.

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Love to enemies is not possible for ordinary men.

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Everything that comes from India take as true, until you cogent reasons for disbelieving it. Everything that comes from Europe take as false, until you find cogent reasons for believing it.

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The benefit of Yoga is that we learn to control instead of being controlled.

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Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be.

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All quarrels and disputations concerning religion simply show that religion is not present.

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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man, is equal to the whole world.

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You must believe in yourself and then you will believe in God.

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We trust the man in the street, but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God.

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The secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

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The self-seeking man who is looking after personal comforts and leading a lazy life, there is no room for him even in hell.

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India is the only place where, with all its faults, the soul finds its freedom, its God.

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It is the heart that conquers, not the brain.

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In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.

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Isn't it man that makes money? Where did you ever hear of money making man?

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He who always speculates as to what awaits him in future, accomplishes nothing whatsoever.

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Fear is one of the worst enemies.

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Both happiness and misery are chains, the one golden, the other iron; but both are equally strong to bind us.

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Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

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The highest ideal is eternal and entire self-abnegation, where there is no 'I', but is Thou'.

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By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them.

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All expansion is life, all contraction is death.

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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 law of life, just as you breathe to live.

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The national ideals of India are Renunciation and Service. Intensity in those channels, and the rest will take care of itself.

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Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing this.

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