" A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to. "

- 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

" We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act. "

- swami vivekananda

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

- swami vivekananda

" whatever you think that you will be. if you think yourself weak,weak you will be; if you think yourself strong,you will be "

- swami vivekananda

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

- swami vivekananda

" Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! "

- swami vivekananda

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

- swami vivekananda

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

- swami vivekananda

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

- swami vivekananda

" Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death. "

- swami vivekananda

" Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go. "

- swami vivekananda

" Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. "

- swami vivekananda

" You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. "

- 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

" They alone live, who live for others. "

- swami vivekananda

" Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. "

- swami vivekananda

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

- swami vivekananda

" We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. "

- swami vivekananda

" Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. "

- swami vivekananda