“The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God, that is Truth, is an uncertainty.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“[T]he devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness. It certainly is not blind faith. The devotion of the Gita has the least to do with the externals. A devotee may use, if he likes, rosaries, forehead marks, make offerings, but these things are no test of his devotion. He is the devotee who is jealous of none, who is a fount of mercy, who is without egotism, who is selfless, who treats alike cold and heat, happiness and misery, who is ever forgiving, who is always contented, whose resolutions are firm, who has dedicated mind and soul to God, who causes no dread, who is not afraid of others, who is free from exultation, sorrow and fear, who is pure, who is versed in action and yet remains unaffected by it, who renounces all fruit, good or bad, who treats friend and foe alike, who is untouched by respect or disrespect, who is not puffed up by praise, who does not go under when people speak ill of him who loves silence and solitude, who has a disciplined reason. Such devotion is inconsistent with the existence at the same time of strong attachments.
We thus see that to be a real devotee is to realize oneself.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Sir Pherozeshah had seemed to me like the Himalaya, the Lokamanya like the ocean. But Gokhale was as the Ganges.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Le Mahatma Gandhi, que j'admire beaucoup, a dit : "Si tu rends oeil pour oeil, le monde deviendra aveugle." Je voudrais, quant à moi, dessiller les yeux des hommes plutôt qu'augmenter leur cécité ou leur indifférence devant les injustices.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose”
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Mahatma Gandhi
