Quotes By Swami Vivekananda

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.

By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.

There is salvation only for the brave.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

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.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.

For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

The road to salvation is through truth.

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.