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The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and

The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.

Swami Vivekananda
Health, Hands, Long
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2549, Manonmani Publishers

Charity opens the heart.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Charity
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.

Swami Vivekananda
Goal, Despair, Razors
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.45, editionNEXT.com

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

Swami Vivekananda
Principles, Behaviour, Levels
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough.

Swami Vivekananda
Strength, Giving, Needs
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.163, editionNEXT.com

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Holiness, Sincerity
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.120, Advaita Ashrama

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

Swami Vivekananda
India, Conflict, Social
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.24, SkyLight Paths Publishing

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

Swami Vivekananda
Children, Iron, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2090, Manonmani Publishers

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Time, Truth
Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Karma Yoga”, p.9, Jazzybee Verlag

Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Country
Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Soul, Perceive
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.118, Manonmani Publishers

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

Swami Vivekananda
People, India, Sole
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1103, Manonmani Publishers

What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.

Swami Vivekananda
Encouragement, Names, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2593, Manonmani Publishers

Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.

Swami Vivekananda
Lust, May, Awakening
Swami Vivekananda (1976). “Awakened India”

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

Swami Vivekananda
India, Fans, Pariahs
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3266, Manonmani Publishers

With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Fire, Age
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.65, Vivekananda Kendra

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

Swami Vivekananda
Wall, Bricks, Blame
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4493, Manonmani Publishers

Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all.

Swami Vivekananda
Stars, Struggle, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2252, Manonmani Publishers

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda
Struggle, Character, Humanity
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.

Swami Vivekananda
Mist

Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Mystery
Source: tamilandvedas.com

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

Swami Vivekananda
Order, Want, Cry
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1643, Manonmani Publishers

Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Meditation, Unification
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2579, Manonmani Publishers

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Running, Pain
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2394, Manonmani Publishers

We must get out of materialism.

Swami Vivekananda
Materialism
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Is Vedanta The Future Religion?”, p.14, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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