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I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Years, Coward
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3943, Manonmani Publishers

If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Joy, Suffering
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.205, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Evil, Universe
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2628, Manonmani Publishers

The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Hero
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.47, Advaita Ashrama

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Fire, Faults
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.73, editionNEXT.com

We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.

Swami Vivekananda
Errors, Tiny, Trouble
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.

Swami Vivekananda
Eye, Long, Weakness
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

Swami Vivekananda
Feelings, Intellectual, Vitality
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.144, Vivekananda Kendra

There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Love Is, Men
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.125, Vivekananda Kendra

Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory.

Swami Vivekananda
Powerful, Thinking, Majesty
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.11, editionNEXT.com

Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out

Swami Vivekananda
Have Faith, Conscious, Faith In Yourself
Swami Vivekananda “Life changing quotes By Swami Vivekananda”, Bhagyesh

By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

Swami Vivekananda
Prayer, Hypocrite, Dark

One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.

Swami Vivekananda
Errors, Differences, Hinduism
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2597, Manonmani Publishers

There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.

Swami Vivekananda
Body, Weak, Harm
Source: tamilandvedas.com

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

Swami Vivekananda
Yoga, Helping Others, Giving
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1062, Manonmani Publishers

Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Everyone must work out his own salvation.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Work Out, Brave
"The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita III" by Swami Vivekananda, May 29, 1900.

The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

Swami Vivekananda
Littles, West, Spirituality
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

Swami Vivekananda
Heaven, Earth, Gains
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Action, Manifest
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2838, Manonmani Publishers

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

Swami Vivekananda
Humanity, Holiness, Pearls
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama

Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Struggle, Unnecessary
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.438, Manonmani Publishers

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Perfect, Realising
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3490, Manonmani Publishers

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Self, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.37, Advaita Ashrama

This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda
Attachment, Soul, Doe
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1018, Manonmani Publishers

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Ends, Human Beings
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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