"Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now."
-- Swami Vivekananda"If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Who is helping you, don't forget them. Who is loving you, don't hate them. Who is believing you, don't cheat them."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else."
-- Swami Vivekananda"We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts?"
-- Swami Vivekananda"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways."
-- Swami Vivekananda"A fool may buy all the books in the world... but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Don't look back—forward!"
-- Swami Vivekananda"Man is to become divine by realizing the divine."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential."
-- Swami Vivekananda"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Service to man is service to God."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Experience is the only teacher we have."
-- Swami Vivekananda"External nature is only internal nature writ large."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm."
-- Swami Vivekananda"The goal of mankind is knowledge."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."
-- Swami Vivekananda"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders."
-- Swami Vivekananda
