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Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.
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All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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 -
Mahatma Gandhi -
Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.
Mahatma Gandhi -
God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
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The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
Mahatma Gandhi -
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
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A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi