Mahatma GandhiA clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance. ✨ Mahatm… ▶371Philosophy
Mahatma GandhiAll humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.371Humanity
Mahatma GandhiYou 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. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A… ▶371HopeHumanityPhilosophy
Mahatma GandhiReal beauty is my aim.371Reading
Mahatma GandhiThe first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi (1970). Co… ▶371Humanity
Mahatma GandhiThe test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. C… ▶371ReflectionThought
Mahatma GandhiWe cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.372Politics
Mahatma GandhiI understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own. ✨ … ▶372Truth
Mahatma GandhiPurity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi (1962). True Education361LifeTruth
Mahatma GandhiMan's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi (1977). Collecte… ▶361HumanityLove
Mahatma GandhiPower is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one d… ▶372LovePoliticsTime
Mahatma GandhiIt is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). Gandhi on… ▶361Love
Mahatma GandhiIn the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at… ▶372HopeLove
Mahatma GandhiThere is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man ✨ Mahatma Gandhi (1988). Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Sp… ▶361Reflection
Mahatma GandhiPeace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it ✨ Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). Mahatm… ▶372Truth
Mahatma GandhiI think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, tra… ▶372LifeThoughtTruth
Mahatma GandhiEven as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.372Hope
Mahatma GandhiA true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the b… ▶351DeathHopeLife
Mahatma GandhiThe greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.362Humanity
Mahatma GandhiPeace is its own reward.362Death
Mahatma GandhiI have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi (1948)… ▶351Truth
Mahatma GandhiIt is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my an… ▶373Life
Mahatma GandhiEvery worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.351Life
Mahatma GandhiAmong the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if w… ▶362PoliticsTruth
Mahatma GandhiIf we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi (2005). All Men Are Brothers,… ▶351Time
Mahatma GandhiFull effort is full victory. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi (1980). All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections, p.154, A&C Black351Reflection
Mahatma GandhiHinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of trut… ▶373LifePoliticsTruth
Mahatma GandhiIt may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of anot… ▶363HumanityLovePolitics
Mahatma GandhiI contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi (1967). Collected … ▶363Reading
Mahatma GandhiFear has its use but cowardice has none. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi (1965). Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Maha… ▶363Thought
