18 Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Life

Swami Vivekananda quotes on life

14. Strength is Life, Weakness is death

16. This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

19. The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

44. 'Comfort' is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being 'comfortable.'

47. A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.

64. Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world and make us long to escape, to have freedom.

66. Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?

94. I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

95. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves.

100. If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

110. Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

132. Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand.

161. This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.

162. This I have seen in life-those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

175. We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

176. We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?

182. What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

206. When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others