Inspiring Thoughts

by Vivekananda

We are responsible for what we are And whatever we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make ourselves If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act

Fill the brain with high thoughts and highest ideals place them day and night before you and out of that will come great work

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

Experience is the only teacher we have We may talk and reason all our lives but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves

One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the ‘Atman’ is like the fool who wanting to cross the river caught hold of a crocodile mistaking it for a log of wood

The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward

In judging others we always judge them by our own ideals That is not as it should be Everyone must be judged according to his own ideal and not by that of anyone else

Religion as a science as a study is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have