“Um homem não pode fazer o certo numa área da vida, enquanto está ocupado em fazer o errado em outra. A vida é um todo indivisível.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Words like aparigraha (non-possession) and samabhava (equability) gripped me. How to cultivate and preserve that equability was the question. How was one to treat alike insulting, insolent and corrupt officials, co-workers of yesterday raising meaningless opposition, and men who had always been good to one? How was one to divest oneself of all possessions? Was not the body itself possession enough? Were not wife and children possessions? Was I to destroy all the cupboards of books I had? Was I to give up all I had and follow Him? Straight came the answer: I could not follow Him unless I gave up all I had.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
This means the when you go to sleep you close your eyes and you are and look like you are dead but then when you wake up it looks like you are reborn because you are up and ready.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“And when the old deception of a supernatural and God-appointed authority had dwindled away these men were only concerned to devise a new one which like its predecessor should make it possible to hold the people in bondage to a limited number of rulers.
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with Truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments; it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. But”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The deeper the search in the mine of truth the richer the discovery of the gems buried there”
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Mahatma Gandhi
