Vivekanada Quotes & Sayings

the world is a great gymnasium where we came to make ourselves strong. — Swami Vivekanada

Self-preservation is the fundamental motive of the passions, according to Spinoza; but self-preservation alters its character when we realize that what is real and positive in us is what unites us to the whole, and not what preserves the appearance of separateness. — Anonymous

Sometimes we miss the miraculous of all that we have been blessed with because we're so focused on the one thing we don't have. When this happens, we become disillusioned with all that we do have. — Lysa TerKeurst

Every day I watched how a bare metal frame, rolling down the line would come off the other end, a spanking brand new car. What a great idea! Maybe, I could do the same thing with my music. Create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown, go through a process, and come out another door, a star. — Berry Gordy

Memory lane is not a road I like to go down. But that's the only way to remember not to forget. — Manasa Rao

I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies. — Ted Ligety

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing. — Ezra Cornell

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells. — Elizabeth Fry

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! — Bertrand Russell

We have lived through some unforgettable times together, some good, some bad, achieving results that will be hard to equal. — Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people. — Huey Newton

About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism ... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings. — Chittaranjan Das

What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can't be real. — Megan Hart

I look into your eyes and I'm sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both. — Cristen Rodgers