Quotes By Swami Vivekananda

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest inthe universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed,no wonder that so many fall. Character has to beestablished through a thousand stumbles.

Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings.

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

The real man is the one Unit Existence.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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