“Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The terrible sacrifice offered to Kali in the name of religion enhanced my desire to know Bengali”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“How can a person who has awakened to the truth about his body ever die? Such a one attains to immortality.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The Gita does not decide for us. But if, whenever faced with a moral problem, you give up attachment to the ego and then decide what you should do, you will come to no harm. This is the substance of the argument which Shri Krishna has expanded into 18 chapters.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I learnt the lesson on non-violence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her, and in the end she became my teacher in non-violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“How it is that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter?”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
