"Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is reached."

- 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

"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."

- Swami Vivekananda

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

- Swami Vivekananda

"In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart."

- Swami Vivekananda

"The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!"

- 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

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."

- Swami Vivekananda

"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."

- 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 until we experience it ourselves."

- Swami Vivekananda

"The greatest sin is to think yourself weak."

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Swami Vivekananda

"Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes."

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- 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