Mahatma Gandhi - Heart Quotes

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Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

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Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.

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I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.

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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

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I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

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If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

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Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

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The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

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I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

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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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We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

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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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I draw no distinction between error and sin. If a man commits a bona fide mistake and confesses it with a contrite heart before his Maker, the merciful Maker sterilizes it of all harm.

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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

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My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

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I wanted to know the best of the life of one (Muhammad) who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind. I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

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The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

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