“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.””
“Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.””
“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.””
“Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.””
“whatever you think that you will be.if you think yourself weak,weak you will be;if you think yourself strong,you will be””
Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was an influential Indian Hindu monk and philosopher who played a pivotal role in introducing Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world. Raised in an aristocrat...
“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.””
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.””
“Each work has to pass through these stages”
“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.””
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.””
“We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate.The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurledcatch it, and go forward on their way, but those which havetheir sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault ofthe wind?....... We make our own destiny.””
“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.””
“Never say, "O Lord, I am a miserable sinner." Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. What in this universe can help you? What can prevail over you? You are the God of the universe; where can you seek for help? Never help came from anywhere but from yourself. In your ignorance, every prayer that you made and that was answered, you thought was answered by some Being, but you answered the prayer yourself unknowingly. The help came from yourself, and you fondly imagined that someone was sending help to you. There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm, you have built a cocoon around yourself. Who will save you? Burst your own cocoon and come out as a beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.””
“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.””
“beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet””
“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.””
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.””
“Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.””
“The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.””
“Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.””