Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better!

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We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

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So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

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Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

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Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

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The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours, my national religion or your national religion; there never existed many religions, there is only the one. One infinite religion existed all through eternity and will ever exist, and this religion is expressing itself in various countries in various ways.

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Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

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The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

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Man is greater than the gods.

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If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

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Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.

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The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.

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Doing good to others is the #‎ one great Universal Religion

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Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

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Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

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I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

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We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

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All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

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One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

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If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil.

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