"To be more free is the goal..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.”

“Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.”

“It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.”

“Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.”

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

“For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.”

“Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.”

“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.”

“There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.”