Swami Vivekananda
Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face
When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn
He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve
When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People
When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Work Hard
When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard
When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me How to Help Others
God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed.”
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga Also Pantanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, with Commentaries, and Glossary of Sa 253 likes like “When I Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face
When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn
He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve
When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People
When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Work Hard
When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard
When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me How to Help Others
God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed.”
― Swami Vivekananda 237 likes like “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you,
none can make you spiritual.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: confidence, spiritual 191 likes like “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ”
― Swami Vivekananda 157 likes like “In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”
― Swami Vivekananda 128 likes like “The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: etc, hinduism, inspirational, religious 113 likes like “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
― Swami Vivekananda 95 likes like “All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures from Colombo to Almora tags: all-power-is-within-you 91 likes like “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”
― Swami Vivekananda 90 likes like “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”
― Swami Vivekananda, Pearls of Wisdom 81 likes like “Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.”
― Swami Vivekananda 78 likes like “They alone live, who live for others.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: inspirational 69 likes like “Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: inspirational 67 likes like “All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Letters of Swami Vivekananda tags: law, love 65 likes like “You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
― Swami Vivekananda 62 likes like “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ”
― Swami Vivekananda 59 likes like “Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”
― Swami Vivekananda 53 likes like “arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: activism, inspirational 51 likes like “Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: inspirational 49 likes like “Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: comfort, truth 49 likes like “The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
― Swami Vivekananda 48 likes like “Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga tags: books, god, religion 42 likes like “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate.
The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled
catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have
their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of
the wind?....... We make our own destiny.
”
― Swami Vivekananda 41 likes like “whatever you think that you will be.
if you think yourself weak,weak you will be;
if you think yourself strong,you will be”
― Swami Vivekananda 40 likes like “Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.”
― Swami Vivekananda 40 likes like “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 39 likes like “All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: oneness 39 likes like “Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”
― Swami Vivekananda 39 likes like “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 the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”
― Swami Vivekananda 39 likes like “Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”
― Swami Vivekananda
― Swami Vivekananda, Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga Also Pantanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, with Commentaries, and Glossary of Sa 253 likes like “When I Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face
When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn
He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve
When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People
When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Work Hard
When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard
When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me How to Help Others
God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed.”
― Swami Vivekananda 237 likes like “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you,
none can make you spiritual.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: confidence, spiritual 191 likes like “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ”
― Swami Vivekananda 157 likes like “In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”
― Swami Vivekananda 128 likes like “The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: etc, hinduism, inspirational, religious 113 likes like “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
― Swami Vivekananda 95 likes like “All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures from Colombo to Almora tags: all-power-is-within-you 91 likes like “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”
― Swami Vivekananda 90 likes like “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”
― Swami Vivekananda, Pearls of Wisdom 81 likes like “Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.”
― Swami Vivekananda 78 likes like “They alone live, who live for others.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: inspirational 69 likes like “Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: inspirational 67 likes like “All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Letters of Swami Vivekananda tags: law, love 65 likes like “You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
― Swami Vivekananda 62 likes like “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ”
― Swami Vivekananda 59 likes like “Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”
― Swami Vivekananda 53 likes like “arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: activism, inspirational 51 likes like “Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: inspirational 49 likes like “Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: comfort, truth 49 likes like “The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
― Swami Vivekananda 48 likes like “Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!”
― Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga tags: books, god, religion 42 likes like “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate.
The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled
catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have
their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of
the wind?....... We make our own destiny.
”
― Swami Vivekananda 41 likes like “whatever you think that you will be.
if you think yourself weak,weak you will be;
if you think yourself strong,you will be”
― Swami Vivekananda 40 likes like “Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.”
― Swami Vivekananda 40 likes like “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 39 likes like “All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
― Swami Vivekananda tags: oneness 39 likes like “Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”
― Swami Vivekananda 39 likes like “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 the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”
― Swami Vivekananda 39 likes like “Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”
― Swami Vivekananda