“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I realised that even a man’s reforming zeal ought not to make him exceed his limits. I also saw that in thus lending trust-money I had disobeyed the cardinal teaching of the Gita, viz., the duty of a man of equipoise to act without desire for the fruit. The error became for me a beacon-light of warning.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Du und ich: Wir sind eins. Ich kann dir nicht wehtun, ohne mich zu verletzen.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Truth is like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mine of truth the richer the discovery of the gems buried there, in the shape of openings for an ever greater variety of service.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
- Hind Swaraj”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Only he Who is smitten with the arrows of love, Knows its power.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with Truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments; it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
