Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.

  

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• Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

  

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• My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.

  

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• We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.

  

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• I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'

  

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• Lindor is a good player. When I was 20, I wasn't conditioned like he is.

  

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• I mean, you can?t spot a guy like that a second around this track with only a few laps to go. That was my own fault.

  

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• We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

  

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• Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

  

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• I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

  

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• How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

  

  Wang Wei
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• Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Idle
  • Industrious
  • Purification