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If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Mind, Mountain

He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end and never stops to consider high or low has the whole world lying at his feet.

Swami Vivekananda
Lying, Feet, Leader
Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Men, Thinking
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1761, Manonmani Publishers

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Truth
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

Swami Vivekananda
Purity, Definite
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1458, Manonmani Publishers

Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.

Swami Vivekananda
Names, Giving, Desire
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

Relationships are more important than life,but it is important for those relationships to have life in them

Swami Vivekananda
Important

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

Swami Vivekananda
Prayer, Silence, Form

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda
Vedanta
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.155, Vivekananda Kendra

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda
Keys, Focus, House
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.67, editionNEXT.com

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, God
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

Swami Vivekananda
Optimistic, Optimism, Imperfection
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1595, Manonmani Publishers

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .

Swami Vivekananda
Patience, Running, Perseverance
Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.

Swami Vivekananda
Rivers, Doe, Velocity
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

Swami Vivekananda
Time, Flower, Lions
Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

Swami Vivekananda
Ocean, Names, Wave
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3732, Manonmani Publishers

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Trying, Three Things

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.

Swami Vivekananda
Mind, Goes On, Next
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Wings, Bird

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

Swami Vivekananda
Blessed, Body, Destroyed
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1017, Manonmani Publishers

All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.

Swami Vivekananda
Strength, Past, Want
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.159, Vivekananda Kendra

So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

Swami Vivekananda
Long, Vapour, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3163, Manonmani Publishers

The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.

Swami Vivekananda
Kings, Heart, Thinking
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.

Swami Vivekananda
Running, Heart, Character

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Ninety Nine, Race
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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