1. 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.
2. Live as if you were to die
tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
3. Strength does not come from
physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
4. Gentleness, self-sacrifice and
generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
5. Honest disagreement is often a
good sign of progress.
6. God, as Truth, has been for me
a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
7. Happiness is when what you
think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
8. Nonviolence is the greatest
force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of
destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
9. An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody
will see it.
10. Glory lies in the attempt to
reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
11. Abstinence is forgiveness
only when there is power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to
proceed from a helpless creature.
12. Fasts could not be undertaken
out of anger. Anger was a short madness.
13. Happiness is when what you
think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
14. Terrorism and deception are
weapons not of the strong but of the weak.
15. Freedom is not worth having
if it does not connote freedom to err.
16. Whenever you are confronted
with an opponent, conquer him with love.
17. I object to violence because
when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is
permanent.
18. God is, even though the whole
world denies him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is
self-sustained.
19. Man is the maker of his own
destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
20. My Gita tells me that evil
can never result from good action.
21. There are times when you have
to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e., the voice of conscience even
though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation
from friends, from family, from the state to which you may belong, from all
that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our
being.
22. Woman is the companion of
man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in
the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has an equal right of
freedom and liberty with him.
23. 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.
24. Fear is not a disease of the
body; fear kills the soul.
25. God sometimes does try to the
uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
26. There are people in the world
so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
27. A man is but the product of
his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
28. Live simply that others may
simply live.
29. Healthy discontent is the
prelude to progress.
30. The test of friendship is
assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance. Co-operation
which needs consideration is a commercial contract and not friendship.
Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
31. An education which does not
teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew
the other, is a misnomer.
32. Affection cannot be
manufactured or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a
system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection,
so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.
33. The good man is the friend of
all living things.
34. There are seven sins in the
world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without
character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without
sacrifice and politics without principle.
35. Whenever I see an erring man,
I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so
was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel
that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
36. All truths, not merely ideas,
but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
37. No cost is too heavy for the
preservation of one's honor.
38. An eye for eye only ends up
making the whole world blind.
39. Even as wisdom often comes
from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people.
The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no
matter from where it comes.
40. The future depends on what we
do in the present.
41. The difference between what
we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the
world's problems.
42. The only devils in this world
are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles
should be fought.
43. 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.
44. They cannot take away our
self-respect if we do not give it to them.
45. To conceal ignorance is to
increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope
that it will diminish some day or the other.
46. True ahimsa (non – violence)
should mean a complete freedom from illwill and anger and hate and an
overflowing love for all.
47. There are people in the world
so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
48. The only tyrant I accept in
this world is the still voice within.
49. The greatness of a nation and
its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
50. Non-violence does not signify
that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which
men do, not the human beings themselves.
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