Great Thoughts

“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.”
~Swami Vivekananda

“Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.”
~Swami Vivekananda

“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

“The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.”
~Swami Vivekananda

“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

“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”
~Swami Vivekananda

“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
~Swami Vivekananda

“The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful”
~Swami Vivekananda

“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
~Swami Vivekananda