Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
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Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
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Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
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The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
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Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
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It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.
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My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
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It is nonviolent non-cooperation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
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There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.
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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
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The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
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Man believes and lives.
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Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.
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It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
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No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.
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Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.