“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Effort is within man’s control, not the fruit thereof.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Religion which takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
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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
“How it is that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter?”
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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
“It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.”
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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
“Then, too, the dissemination of the truth in a society based on coercion was always hindered in one and the same manner, namely, those in power, feeling that the recognition of this truth would undermine their position, consciously or sometimes unconsciously perverted it by explanations and additions quite foreign to it, and also opposed it by open violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I”
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Mahatma Gandhi