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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian
Leader
Born:
Oct 2
,
1869
Died:
Jan 30
,
1948
Faith
God
Man
Religion
Will
World
Related authors:
Bodhidharma
Dayananda Saraswati
Jawaharlal Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Paramahansa Yogananda
Prem Rawat
Ramakrishna
Sai Baba
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
Mahatma Gandhi
God
Character
Sense
Evidence
Those
Perceptions
Outside
Within
Felt
Real
Proved
However
Infallible
False
Conduct
May
Often
Where
Deceptive
Senses
Transformed
Realization
Us
Who
Appear
Presence
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mahatma Gandhi
Heart
Will
On And Off
Our
Must
Inseparable
Part
Put
Non-Violence
Off
Being
Garment
Seat
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love
Justice
Surrender
Law
Punishment
Gives
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
You
Important
Whatever
Insignificant
Seem
Most
May
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life
Man
Soul
Natural
Liberty
Starvation
Starving
Worse
Him
His
Deny
Ordinary
Deprive
Then
Body
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi
Moral Authority
Moral
Seeking
Attempt
Never
Without
Effort
Authority
Any
Hold
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
Wisdom
Healthy
Own
Too
Weaken
Strongest
Reminded
Wisest
Sure
Unwise
Err
Might
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
Religion
Solve
Takes
Practical
Does
Affairs
Account
Them
Help
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom
Worth
Having
Does
Err
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
Mahatma Gandhi
Great
Man
Power
Destiny
Only
Great Power
Allowed
He
True
Supposed
Make
Partly
Maker
His
Far
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi
Writing
Our
Books
Our Lives
Only
Open
Study
Either
Really
Lives
Need
Speech
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma Gandhi
Death
Be Brave
Lust
Enough
Martyr
Martyrdom
No-One
Brave
Die
Us
Let Us
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
Religion
Heart
Matter
Abandonment
Own
Physical
Warrant
Inconvenience
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith
Cause
Intolerance
Betrays
Want
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Lies
Attempt
Reach
Reaching
Glory
Goal
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith
Must
Blind
Becomes
Dies
Enforced
Reason
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi
Man
Woman
Our
Recommend
Morality
Purity
Hearts
Depends
Which
Much
Rooted
Helplessness
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness
Daily
Man
Contentment
Living
Thinking
High
Lies
Pursuit
He
Ideal
His
Falls
Wants
Plan
Really
Moment
Multiply
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi
Simple
Own
Liable
Other
Enough
Humility
Claim
Individual
Mortal
Steps
Retrace
Like
Fellow
However
Err
Errors
Confess
Any
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Truth
Humble
Earnest
Seeker
Am
Very
After
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mahatma Gandhi
Law
Living
Every
Universe
Everything
Blind
Govern
Governing
Exists
Conduct
Being
Beings
Lives
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi
Though
Thousand
He
Names
Know
Him
Same
May
Us
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mahatma Gandhi
Meeting
Our
Opinions
Private
Hearts
May
Bar
Should
Why
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life
Religion
Man
Remember
Own
Every
Philosophical
Scales
More
His
Truest
Than
Low
Stands
Even
Comparison
Every Man
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Religion
Age
Submit
Every
Test
Acid
Formula
Reason
Assent
Universal
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Mahatma Gandhi
Strength
Added
Latter
Restraint
Becomes
Courtesy
Irresistible
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