Swami Vivekananda

"When the flower blooms, bees come uninvited. So make yourself bloom and the world will come to you."

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

"Help and not fight. Assimilation and not Dissimilation. Harmony and Peace and not Discords."

"The great secret is not to kill out desires but to convert them, to transform them into higher channels."

"External nature is only internal nature writ large."

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

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

"The moment a man stands up and says, 'I am free,' in that very moment he is free."

"Books are invaluable treasures for a plodding reader, but the moment he becomes a thinker, he finds infinite resource in himself."

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. This is the way to success."

"The greatest truths are the simplest. They must be simple, or they would not be truths."

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

"When you throw an apple into the water it sinks; but when you throw a stone it goes to the bottom. Everything seeks its level."

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before."

"The nation lives or dies, prospers or decays, according to whether it preserves or destroys this sense of social obligation."

"My Master used to say: 'When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.' So you need not advertise yourself."

"Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the world by storm."

"The greatest religion is to be true to this nature, and the greatest law is to be true to others."

"Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest truism ever told."

"They alone live, who live for others."

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

"The world has a right to know what I am, and I have a right to teach the world what I am."

"Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love."

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."

"The greatest religion is to be true to this nature, the greatest law is to regard the world as one family."

"When the flower blooms, bees come; make yourself bloom and the whole world comes to you."

"So long as the millions live in hunger and rags, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not heed to them."

"All power that is physical is, in the end, nothing but moral; all power that is moral is, in the end, nothing but spiritual."

"They will be nearer to Truth who think the universe to be made of Truth and Goodness, than they who think it to be made of plunder and cruelty."

"The greatest religion is the religion of Truth. Truth has always existed."