The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.. think of it, always.
My life is my message.
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.
When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.
Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!
Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.
The one religion is beyond all speech.
Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
Be the change you want to see.
God never occurs to you in person but always in action.
Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.
I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.
Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.
I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.
In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.
I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.
Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.
Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.
The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.
Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.
Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.
Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.
Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.
Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.
Take care of this moment.
Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
The future depends on what we do in the present.
We must become the change we want to see.
Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.