"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."
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
"Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue."
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
"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."
"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
"In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth."
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
"I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world."
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world."
"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."
"There's no God higher than truth."
"Truth resides in every human heart,and one has to search for it there,and to be guided by truth as one sees it.But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth."
"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."