Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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• Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Power
  • Pain
  • Powerful

• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Black

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Man
  • Light

• I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Winning

• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Success
  • Years
  • Building

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Business
  • Way
  • Always

• In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Help
  • Small
  • City

• I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Like
  • Find

• The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Best

• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Work
  • Day

• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Soul

• The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Done
  • Health

• I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Enjoy

• If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • English
  • Kill
  • Instead