Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try.


Mahatma Gandhi

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No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within
MAHATMA GANDHI
We must become the change we want to see.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
MAHATMA GANDHI
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slave...
MAHATMA GANDHI
Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I...
MAHATMA GANDHI
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the t...
MAHATMA GANDHI
My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi.
MAHATMA GANDHI
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi.
MAHATMA GANDHI
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
MAHATMA GANDHI
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dign...
MAHATMA GANDHI
The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me.
MAHATMA GANDHI
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever condu...
MAHATMA GANDHI
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Be the change you want to see in the world.
MAHATMA GANDHI
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion
MAHATMA GANDHI
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error beca...
MAHATMA GANDHI
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result
MAHATMA GANDHI
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it
MAHATMA GANDHI
Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it
MAHATMA GANDHI
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. Ther...
MAHATMA GANDHI
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Good government is no substitute for self-government
MAHATMA GANDHI
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
MAHATMA GANDHI