“Il vaut mieux mettre son coeur dans la prière sans trouver de paroles que trouver des mots sans y mettre son coeur.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“When your intellect, once perverted by listening to all manner of arguments, is totally absorbed in the contemplation of God, you will then attain yoga. When a person is firmly established in samadhi — samadhi means fixing the mind on God — he is filled with ecstatic love and, therefore, can be completely indifferent to this world.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.”
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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
“Men often become what they believe themselves to be.If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can , then I acquire the ability to do it even If I didn't have it in the beginning"
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are innumerable definitions of God, because His manifestations are innumerable.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.”
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Mahatma Gandhi