Quotes for Life (Swami Vivekanand )

My favorite quotes for Life (Swami Vivekanand )

1. Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise you may miss meeting an intelligent person in this world.

2. 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. 

3. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body, be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

4. In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in the wrong path.

5. In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. 

6. Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others."

7. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

8. Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be.

9. Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

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

11. Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

12. Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. 

13. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

14. Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

15. 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."