“If one Ponders on objects of the sense, there springs Attraction; from attraction grows desire, Desire flames to fierce passion, passion breeds Recklessness; then the memory—all betrayed— Lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind, Till purpose, mind, and man are all undone.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change which you want to happen to the world”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn't worth the name.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Lebe, als würdest Du morgen sterben und lerne, als ob Du ewig leben würdest.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“L'humanité court à son suicide si le monde n'adopte pas la non-violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi