Swami Vivekananda

"They alone live, who live for others."

"Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is reached."

"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?"

"The greatest religion is to be true to this nature, and to do good to others."

"All power that is progressive is the Church of God."

"Help and not fight, Assimilation and not Annihilation."

"The moment I have realized that God is in every man and woman, that moment I am free."

"Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within."

"Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide."

"Be bold, be strong, take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny."

"When the flower blooms, bees come uninvited."

"The great truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."

"Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond."

"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified."

"All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything."

"Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man."

"Ask and you shall have. Knock and it shall be opened unto you."

"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."

"The greatest truths are the simplest, and the simplest truths are the greatest."

"Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison."

"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being?"

"Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders."

"The great religion is the religion of all times, in all countries, and in all circumstances."

"Shake off all the dust of the earth, and come out pure."

"The moment I have realized that God is in every man and woman, that moment I am free from bondage."

"Man is to be taught and molded, not to be condemned and killed."

"Anything that is delusion we must shake off as we would shake off a snake that coils round our body."

"The greatest religion is to be true to this nature and to do good to others."

"Where is the world? In the human brain. Where is the law of nature? In the human heart."

"The world needs both the reformer and the saint."