“Words like aparigraha (non-possession) and samabhava (equability) gripped me. How to cultivate and preserve that equability was the question.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need, but not every person's greed.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are as many different religions as there are individuals.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read
sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others'
religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the
world's religions is a sacred duty.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Effort is within man’s control, not the fruit thereof.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A moral life, without reference to religion, is like a house built upon sand. And religion, divorced from morality, is like “sounding brass, good only for making a noise and breaking heads.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Third-class passengers are treated like sheep and their comforts are sheep’s comforts.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The longer I live-especially now when I clearly feel the approach of death-the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense importance, namely, what we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really simply means the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“La non-violence est la loi de notre espèce, comme la violence est la loi de la brute. L'esprit somnole chez la brute qui ne connaît pour toute loi que cette de la force physique. La dignité de l'homme exige d'obéir à une loi supérieure.
à la force de l'esprit.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
