Swami Vivekananda Quotes

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

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

whatever you think that you will be.
if you think yourself weak,weak you will be;
if you think yourself strong,you will be

Each work has to pass through these stages — ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

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

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.