"Good and evil thoughts are each a..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life.”

“I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.”

“This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.”

“Thoughts rule the world.”

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”

“You may think that you are well, but you will not secure health until you think thoughts that produce health. You may persistently affirm that you are well, but so long as you live in discord, confusion, worry, fear and other wrong states of mind, you will be sick; that is, you will be as you think and not what you think you are. You may state health in your thought, but if you give worry, fear and discord to that thought, your thinking will produce discord. It is not what we state in our thoughts, but what we give to our thoughts that determine results.”

“A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.”

“The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.”

“Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.”