“Even in small matters, we can say, our intellect is not resolute. It will be resolute only if we fix our minds on one purpose and cling to it with discrimination, only if we work without looking for immediate results. At present, whether in politics or social reform we leap from one branch to another. I began with the illustration of a ball of earth and told you that, even if we concentrate on that, we can realise the atman.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The heart’s earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled. In my own experience I have often seen this rule verified.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest sign of decay.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I learned from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“unity to be real must survive the severest strain without breaking.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If we argue that since all bodies are perishable, one may kill, does it follow that I may kill all the women and children in the Ashram? Would I have in doing so acted according to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, merely because their bodies are perishable? What,”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The deeper the search in the mine of truth the richer the discovery of the gems buried there”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher”
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Mahatma Gandhi
