Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
India
2 Oct 1869 // 30 Jan 1948
Spiritual Leader
2 Oct 1869 // 30 Jan 1948
Spiritual Leader
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment
Man'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
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep
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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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