Top 10 Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda's 153rd birth anniversary is being celebrated in India on Tuesday, January 12. The day is also celebrated as Youth Day. Swami Vivekananda helped Hinduism reach the global status in the 19th century. Here are 10 inspirational quotes from the spiritual leader:

1. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

2. 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.

3. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

4. The moment I have realised God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

5. Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

6. The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

7. Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

8. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

9. When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

10. 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 freed.