Mahatma Gandhi - Love Quotes

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Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -

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I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

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It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

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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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Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

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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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To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

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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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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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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

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

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

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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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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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If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

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Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

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I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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

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Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains, and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.

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Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

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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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Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

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A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

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For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

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