"We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"whatever you think that you will be. if you think yourself weak,weak you will be; if you think yourself strong,you will be"
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!"
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"They alone live, who live for others."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"The greatest sin is to think yourself weak"
- vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves."
- vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"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."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path"
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024
"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."
- swami vivekananda
November 14, 2024