Inspiring Thoughts

by Vivekananda

Books are infinite in number and time is short The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential Take that and try to live up to it

In a day when you do not come across any problems you can be sure that you are travelling on the wrong path

All love is expansion all selfishness is contraction

Everything can be sacrificed for truth but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind The infinite library of the universe is in our own mind

Those who live for others really live and those who live only for themselves are more dead than alive