Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.
Swami VivekanandaThank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
Swami VivekanandaChange is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.
Swami VivekanandaWe have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity.
Swami VivekanandaThere is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
Swami VivekanandaBooks suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned the knowledge ourselves. When the inner light has flashed for you, let the books go, and look only within. You have in you all and a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours.
Swami Vivekananda