“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Hence, we should not be attached even to a good cause. Only then will our means remain pure and our actions too.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
