Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before.

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.

Strength is Life, Weakness is death.

Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.

Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

We must overcome difficulty by constant practice. We must learn that nothing can happen to us unless we make ourselves susceptible to it.

Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.’ That which I created, I can demolish; that which is created by someone else, I shall never be able to destroy. Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creators of your own destiny. All the strength and success you want is within ourselves.

Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow—never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.