It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.
Swami VivekanandaThe cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.
Swami VivekanandaThe test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.
Swami VivekanandaBooks are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.
Swami Vivekananda