God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?
Swami VivekanandaChrist's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.
Swami VivekanandaLearning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Swami VivekanandaIn Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too.
Swami Vivekananda