“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Europe I travelled third—and only once first, just to see what it was like—but there I noticed no such difference between the first and the third-classes. In South Africa third-class passengers are mostly Negroes, yet the third-class comforts are better there than here.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are some actions from which an escape is a godsend both for the man who escapes and for those about him. Man, as soon as he gets back his consciousness of right, is thankful to the Divine mercy for the escape.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Ahimsa necessarily includes truth and fearlessness.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn't worth the name.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Religion which takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I have from my experience come to the conclusion that Gita has been composed to teach this one truth which I have explained. We can follow truth only in the measure that we shed our attachment to the ego.”
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Mahatma Gandhi