Swami Vivekananda

"Every action that helps us either directly or indirectly to realize our divine nature is a good action, and is called moral."

"The moment I have realized the worth of my life is in my ability to relate to the worth of others."

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

"Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity. There is the same truth underlying all the religions of the world."

"This is the world within you; and the world that you see without is exactly like that within you."

"Stand up! The greatest religion is to be true to this nature and the greatest law is to regard the world as one family."

"Perfection is not in the future but now and here."

"The world has not yet learned what thoughts are; it knows not what conversation is, it knows not what prayer is."

"You cannot believe in yourself until you believe in something greater than yourself."

"The highest science is to help mankind. The greatest civilization is that which has produced the greatest perfection in mankind."

"The world is the great gymnasium in which we exercise our virtues."

"Freedom can never be achieved by the weak. Only the strong can be free."

"Ramakrishna used to tell a story of a man locked in a tower. Another man brought news that he was free; the man in the tower replied 'I cannot believe it.'"

"The great secret is not to kill out desires but to convert them."

"My method is to go from the practical to the theoretical."

"The moment you have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment you stand in reverence before every human being, that moment you are free."

"It is the faith of the mother that influences the children, and it is mother that molds the destiny of the world."

"The history of the world is the history of the few. It is the few who have done the thinking and the few who have ruled."

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

"The more we meditate, the more we shake off the domination of the senses."

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

"Go to the root of things. Why do you exist? That is the question."

"Anything that makes you weak in body and mind, avoid as poison."

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

"Work and not talk; organization and not talk; is the secret of all great achievements."

"The greatest religion is to be true to this nature and this truth is universal."

"He who runs away from the world in fear of pollution by it will have no strength left for any good purpose."

"Each nation has a message to deliver, a destiny to fulfill, an ideal to reach."

"The greatest truths are the simplest things, and the most common things; but the tragedy is that the most uncommon thing is to see the common."

"Individuality in its highest sense is the object, the highest purpose of human life. That is the message of each religion."