Quotable Quotes

By all means, marry, if you get a good wife, you will become happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher-Socrates 460 BC

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." ~ Bruce Lee.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.- Pablo Picasso

“Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them. --- Swami Vivekananda

Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.--- Swami Vivekananda

"When an idea exclusively occupies the mind,
 it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state."--- Swami Vivekananda

"If you think about disaster, you will get it.
 Brood about death and you hasten your demise.
 Think positively and masterfully,
 with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure,
 more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience."--- 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

"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

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say
"that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that."--- Swami Vivekananda

All power is within YOU,
YOU can do anything and everything.
Believe in that, do not believe that YOU are weak.
Stand up and express the divinity within YOU.---- Swami Vivekananda

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves. Therefore, make your own future.--- Swami Vivekananda

First, believe in the world—that there is meaning behind everything.--- Swami Vivekananda

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.--- Swami Vivekananda

This I have seen in life—those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.--- Swami Vivekananda

 Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth—Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.--- Swami Vivekananda

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.--- Swami Vivekananda

  The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.--- Swami Vivekananda

 Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.--- Swami Vivekananda

 Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.--- Swami Vivekananda

Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling they will lead a miserable life…. But those who do their duty putting their shoulder to the wheel will see the light, and higher and higher duties will fall to their share.--- Swami Vivekananda
 
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there-will rogers.