One Liner Swami Vivekananda Quotes
36) All change is in the screen.
37) Change is always subjective.
38) The real work is in the practice.
39) A changeable God would be no God.
40) Service to man is service to god.
41) God is pure, and the same to all.
42) March on, the Lord is our General.
43) Change can only be in the limited.
44) The best guide in life is strength.
45) Every change is being forced upon us.
46) GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide.
47) Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.
48) Infinite strength is religion and God.
49) Business is business, no child's play.
50) As the cause is, so the effect will be.
51) Hinduism is the mother of all religions.
52) Change is the nature of all objective things.
53) This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom.
54) In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
55) Not one is constant, but everything is changing.
56) And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.
57) My bones are destined to make corals in the Ganga.
58) The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.
59) External nature is only internal nature writ large.
60) The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful.
61) Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.
62) Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.
63) We never change, we never die, and we are never born.
64) The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection.
65) The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.
66) None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty.
67) Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.
68) The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
69) Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.
70) Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.
71) The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.
72) Love for yourselves means [in the end] love for everything.
73) When I asked god for peace, he showed me how to help others.
74) Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
75) Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
76) God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted , He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
77) When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
78) The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.
79) Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
80) He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
81) I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.
82) The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.
83) No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.
84) While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.
85) On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.
86) That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
87) That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.
88) It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.
89) I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.
90) The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
91) Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.
92) Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
93) This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.
94) Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
95) The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
96) I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.
97) WHY should a man be miserable even here in the reign of a just and merciful God?
98) Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?
99) We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.
100) What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.
101) The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
102) Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.
103) When the body is still healthy and disease-less, When old age has not yet attacked it.
104) It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.
105) The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.
106) These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.
107) Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
108) God is to be worshiped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
109) Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.
110) Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.
111) Purity,patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and above all: love.
112) Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
113) Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.
114) The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
115) THE Lord is great! - He will not allow me to become a hypocrite. Now let what is in come out.
116) The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.
117) Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.
118) Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.
119) Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.
120) All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.
121) The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.
122) Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
123) Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.
124) This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.
125) A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
126) When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
127) Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.
128) Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap.
129) Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.
130) The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
131) This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondage's.
132) All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
133) Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.
134) Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands?
135) When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before.
136) The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.
137) The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
138) All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
139) There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One.
140) We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
141) If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.
142) We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
143) The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.
144) Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
145) Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.
146) The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.
147) This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.
148) Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
149) 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.
150) Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.