This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.
Swami VivekanandaBoth the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.
Swami VivekanandaA sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.
Swami VivekanandaLove makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brรขhmana and a Pariah, nor even between a man and a woman. Love makes the whole universe as one's own home. True progress is slow but sure. Work among those young men who can devote heart and soul to this one duty - the duty of raising the masses of India. Awake them, unite them, and inspire them with this spirit of renunciation; it depends wholly on the young people of India.
Swami Vivekananda