Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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See the good in people and help them.
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Art to be art must soothe.
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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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All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.
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India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
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To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
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To give one's heart is to give all.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
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I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
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Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
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I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.
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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
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Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
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The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.
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All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
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Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.
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Love is the law of life.
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
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Life is one indivisible whole.