Mahatma Gandhi - Life Quotes

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A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

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The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

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Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

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Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

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Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

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The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

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The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

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I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

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Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

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Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

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The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

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If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

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Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

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The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it...

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This is no appeal made by a man who does not know his business. I have been practising with scientific precision non-violence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. I have applied it in every walk of life, domestic, institutional, economic and political. I know of no single case in which it has failed. Where it has seemed sometimes to have failed, I have ascribed it to my imperfections. I claim no perfection for my self. But I do claim to be a passionate seeker after Truth, which is but another name for God. In the course of the search the discovery of non-violence came to me. Its spread is my life-mission. I have no interest in living except for the prosecution of that mission.

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The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

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A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

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