“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?”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room. ”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Perbedaan pun terbukti berguna, selama ada toleransi.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Who can say thus far, no further, to the tide of his own nature?” Who can erase the impressions with which he is born? It is idle to expect one’s children and wards necessarily to follow the same course of evolution as oneself.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“the old and simple truth that it is natural for men to help and to love one another, but not to torture and to kill one another, became ever clearer, so that fewer and fewer people were able to believe the sophistries by which the distortion of the truth had been made so plausible.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
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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
