“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream. God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification therefore must mean purification in all the walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one’s surroundings.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I believe in the Hindu theory of Guru and his importance in spiritual realisation. I think there is a great deal of truth in the doctrine that true knowledge is impossible without a Guru.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It does not require money, to live neat, clean and dignified..”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
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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
“I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God, that is Truth, is an uncertainty.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Un país, una civilización se puede juzgar por la forma en que trata a sus animales.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“My regard for jurisprudence increased, I discovered in it religion. I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”
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Mahatma Gandhi