Swami Vivekananda

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

You can not believe in god until you believe in yourself.

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.

A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.

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

Desire, ignorance, and inequality — this is the trinity of bondage.

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed.

The Upanishads point out that the goal of man is neither misery nor happiness, but we have to be master of that out of which these are manufactured. We must be masters of the situation at its very root, as it were.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

Have Faith in Man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.