A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

— Swami Vivekananda

All misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.

— Swami Vivekananda

Always keep your mind joyful; if melancholy thoughts come, kick them out.

— Swami Vivekananda

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

— Swami Vivekananda

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

— Swami Vivekananda

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

— Swami Vivekananda

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

— Swami Vivekananda

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.

— Swami Vivekananda