An Indian monk, the chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world.

• "There is no help for you outside of yourself;you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm,you have built a cocoon around yourself.Who will save you?Burst your own cocoon & come out as a beautiful butterfly,as the free soul.Then alone you will see Truth"
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "As the different rivers,taking their start from different mountains,running straight or crooked,at last come to the ocean, O Shiva,the different paths which men take through different tendencies,various though they appear,crooked or straight, all lead to Thee."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Karma means law, and it applies everywhere. Everything is bound by Karma."
  
  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. "
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "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."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free"
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Man is a slave of nature, and slave eternally he has got to remain. We call it Karma. Karma means law, and it applies everywhere. Everything is bound by Karma"
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Work for work's sake. There are some who are really the salt of the earth in every country and who work for work's sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or even to go to heaven"
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "We have to bear the result of our own actions because we attach ourselves to them...."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "It is a very hard thing to understand, but you will come to learn in time that nothing in the universe has power over you until you allow it to exercise such a power."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• “Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "He works for work’s sake. “Work for work’s sake. Worship for worship’s sake."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "There is a continuity of mind,as the Yogis call it.The mind is universal.Your mind,my mind,all these little minds,are fragments of that universal mind;little waves in the ocean;& on account of this continuity;we convey our thoughts directly to one another."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The ideal of all education, all training, should be this man-making. But, instead of that, we are always trying to polish up the outside. What use in polishing up the outside when there is no inside? The end and aim of all training is to make the man grow."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "What India wants is a new electric fire to stir up a fresh vigour in the national veins."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Do you love your country? Than come let us struggle for higher and better things; look not back, no not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry, look not back, but forward!"
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Self-realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation—renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "When the mind has been trained to remain fixed on a certain internal or external location, there comes to it the power of flowing in an unbroken current, as it were, towards that point. This state is called Dhyana"
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them."
• "Work for work’s sake. Worship for worship’s sake. Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The Upanishads point out that the goal of man is neither misery nor happiness, but we have to be master of that out of which these are manufactured. We must be masters of the situation at its very root, as it were"
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves"
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The only way to rise is by doing the duty next to us, and thus gathering strength go on until we reach the highest state"
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Experience is the only teacher we have. we may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at other; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way adsorb it; do not become others.”
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The mistake is that we want to tie the whole world down to our own plane of thought and to make out mind the measure of the whole universe.”
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The only way to rise is by doing the duty next to us, and thus gathering strength, go on until we reach the highest state".
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Freedom is never to be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The powers of the mind are like rays of light dissipated; when they are concentrated, they illumine."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. The master of the household, the King, the Self of man, is sitting in this chariot."
  
  Swami Vivekananda
• "Take up anything that you see or feel, a book for instance; first concentrate the mind on it, then on the knowledge that is in the form of a book, and then on the Ego that sees the book, and so on. By that practice all the organs will be conquered."
  
  Swami Vivekananda