Swami Vivekananda Quotes:
1. God and truth are the only politics in the world, everything else is trash.
2. The world is neither true nor un true, it is the shadow of truth.
3. While we recognized God, it is really only the Self, which we have separated from ourselves and worship as outside of us, but it is our true self all the time, the one and only God.
4. Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
5. Control yourself and listen to the voice of your true self.
6. We are responsible for what we are, and what ever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
7. Power will come, glory will come, goodness will com, purity will come and everything that is excellent will come when this sleeping soul is roused to self conscious activity.
8. Death lies in the senses, life on the plane of the spirit is the only life, life on any other plane is mere death.
9. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
10. Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.
11. This self- control will tend to produce a mighty will, a character which makes a Christ or a Buddha.
12. When one worm lives in this world how can I die ? for my life lies in that worm.
13. Truth is strengthening, truth is purity, truth is all knowledge.
14. It is the coward and the fool who says ‘this is fate’, but it is the strong man who stands up and says, ‘I will make my fate’.
15. Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life, it is better to die on the battle field then to live a life of defeat.
16. The passionless and unattached do most to the world.
17. The self-seeking man who is looking after his personal comforts and a leading a lazy life- there is no room for him even in the hell.
18. What ever you do devote your whole mind, heart and soul to it.
19. Guess against guess makes fight.
20. To think there is any imperfection creates it.
21. Art, science and religion are but three different ways of expressing a single truth.
22. The greater is the desire to enjoy pleasure, and the sharper are the pangs of pain.
23. All knowledge depends upon calmness of mind.
24. Vendanta believes in only one sin, only one in the world, and it is this the moment you think you are a sinner or any body is a sinner that is sin.
25. Know it for certain that there is no greater tirtha than the body of man. Nowhere else is the Atman so manifest as here.
26. The greater a man has become, the fiercer ordeal he has to pass through.
27. What makes one man great and another weak and low is this shradda [concentration].
28. You have in you all and a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken all power is yours.
29. Be perfectly hopeless, that is the highest state.
30. Bear every misery without even knowing that your are miserable.
31. God alone lives. The soul alone live. Spirituality alone lives. Hold on to that.
32. Want of sympathy and lack of energy are at the root of all misery.
33. So long as you are pure and true to your principles, you will never fail.
34. we think in time, our thoughts are bound by time, all that exists, exists in time and space.
35. We are all slaves to our own and everybody else’s mind.
36. To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.
