Inspiring Thoughts

by Vivekananda

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

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea So different tendencies various though they appear crooked or straight all lead to God

A few heart-whole sincere and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century

Whenever we attain a higher vision the lower vision disappears of itself “Comfort” is no test of truth on the contrary Truth is often far from being “comfortable”

Perfection does not come from belief or faith Talk does not count for anything Parrots can do that Perfection comes through selfless work

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

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

Good motives sincerity and infinite love can conquer the world One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes

Women will work out their destinies much better than men can ever do for them All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women

If you think about disaster you will get it Brood about death and you hasten your demise Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature Have faith in yourselves

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?

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

If the mind is intensely eager everything can be accomplished Mountains can be crumbled into atoms

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