Mahatma Gandhi - Life Quotes

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What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

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Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

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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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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

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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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Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

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Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

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I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

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There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

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Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

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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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He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

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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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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

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The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

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My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.

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It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

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I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

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Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

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The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

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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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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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