Swami Vivekananda's Words of Wisdom

• Mere external appearance or a person’s speech or mannerisms are only fringes of one’s personality.
• Don’t become happy with pleasurable events, and miserable with adverse circumstances.
• Go on doing good, thinking holy thoughts continuously, which is the only way to suppress base impressions.
• The personality of a man is two-thirds while his intellect, and his words are but one-third.
• Pleasure is not the Goal of man, but knowledge.
• Don’t desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage.
• Each time we suppress hatred, or a feeling of anger. It is so much good energy stored up in our favour; that piece of energy will be converted into higher powers.
• Fight on bravely! Life is short! Give it up to a great cause.
• When we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best.
• He, who always speculates as to what awaits him in future, accomplishes nothing whatsoever.
• The man who works through freedom and love for work cares nothing for results.
• We shall find that helping others is only helping ourselves; the sun takes up water from the ocean, to return it in showers.
• Unselfishness will bring success; the degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.
• Feel, my children feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad.
• Cowards never win victories.
• Weak men, when they lose everything and feel themselves weak, try all sorts of uncanny methods of making money, and come to astrology.
• When you came to this world, the world rejoiced and you cried; now live your life doing such acts that when you leave this world, the world will cry for you and you will leave it laughing.
• The great benefit in this life is struggle. If there is any road to Heaven, it is through Hell.
• Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life -think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea.
• Regular breathing puts the body in a harmonious condition; it improves your concentration.
• When you have acquired the feeling of non-attachment, there will then be neither good nor evil to you. It is only selfishness that causes the difference between good and evil.
  --------- Swami Vivekananda