The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is noth… - Swami Vivekananda

Let miseries come in millions of rivers and happiness in hundreds! I am no slave to misery! I am no slave to happiness!

The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature; then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think itself of all importance.

When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.