Swami Vivekananda

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

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

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.

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

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.

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.

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.