Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.
Swami VivekanandaRenounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.
Swami VivekanandaEach man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.
Swami VivekanandaTake up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
Swami VivekanandaIt is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.
Swami Vivekananda