Mahatma Gandhi - Love Quotes

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Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

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Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love...

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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

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The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

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Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

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To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.

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Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

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I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

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All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

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One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

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It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

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It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

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Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?

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The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

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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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

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True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

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My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

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The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

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Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love.

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Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

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The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.

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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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Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

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