Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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• “Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.”

• “Attachment comes only where we expect a return.”

• “Have faith in your destiny.”

• “Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.”

• “Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.”

• “I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!”

• “Motion is the sign of life.”

• “The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments.”

• “Body is the name of a series of changes.”

• “To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.”

• “External nature is only internal nature writ large.”

• “God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.”

• “The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.”

• “Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.”

• “I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.”

• “May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.”

• “The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.”

• “As thou thinkest, so art thou.”

• “Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.”

• “No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.”