swami vivekananda quotes 3

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and
cry that it is dark.



Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin,
this is the only sin — to say that you are weak, or others are weak.



“Comfort” is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being “comfortable.”



“Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the
hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.



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



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




All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it.



Truth is the nature of all souls.



Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.



Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single
religious book, without going into a single church or temple.



As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the
expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.



Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.”
Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see
the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is His
business.



Do not look back upon what has been done. Go ahead!


Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—
then alone can great deeds be accomplished.



Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who
think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.





Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as
the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.



Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.




Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life.
All the negative
thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.:):)