Swami Vivekananda

Move onward and carry into practice.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

All power is His and within His command.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.