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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?
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There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.
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My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
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Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
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A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.
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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.
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I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
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The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
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A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
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The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
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The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
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Love is the law of life.
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India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
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Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.