Gandhi Quotes - Page 3

To enjoy the magnificence of life, drink every drop of life and get drunk.

A huge part of losing weight is believing you have the power to do it.

The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to reveal your own unique beauty.

Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it, because nobody else will.I tend to agree with the first part.

...if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must, if we are men, be at least able to defend all these by fighting." (MLK)"...If given a choice between violent resistance and passive acceptance, King and Gandhi both accepted violence..." "...like violence, it [non-violent resistance] was aggressive, but it was spiritually, bot physically, so." "...At the same time the mind and the emotions are active, actively trying to persuade the opponent to change his ways and convince him that he is mistaken and to lift him to a higher level of existence.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.

There are two kinds of people. There are those who love you and make your life beautiful. There are those that hurt you and the pain encourages you to be wonderful.

Let prosperity flow into you like the waves of love and kindness that fill your heart and mind.

For a peaceful world, the golden rules to live by are mutual understanding, respect, tolerance, forgiveness, and love.

However, it’s usually random acts of good intent, like this one, which get you into the worst trouble in the long run. They say that if you want to change the world then you should be that change you want to see. Well that’s what Gandhi said and see what they did to him. Ya, random acts of good intent are the ones that just might get you killed. The further you stick your neck out for others the more likely it’s going to chopped, or at least get a large heavy albatross around it.

Be courageous! Never fear to share your knowledge and wisdom with others. It will help you to be wiser.

You don’t need money to be kind, but you cannot be kind without a heart.

If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I'm just a murderer!

In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

Start each morning with appreciation, love, and gratitude.

Let's be grateful to all those who came in before us. Grateful to all those men and women, young and old alike, who paved the path forward for us, brick by brick. To those men and women who marched across the bridge in Selma on that great day, those men and women who rallied behind the Gandhis and the Mandelas every single time they were needed, to those men and women who stood up for voting rights and civil rights and gay rights and equality and justice and a free world, those men and women who invented the future by inventing things that fundamentally changed the world from the electricity to vaccinations, from airplanes to birth control pills, from the printing press to the internet.

Violence begins with the fork.

Love is a byproduct of deep appreciation.

To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.

The greatest wealth is a loving peaceful mind.

I am not apologetic. I don’t define or defend my philosophical thoughts. You have to feel them, think about them, imagine them, and then try to understand them. My thoughts are my truths. They may not be your truth, and that is fine with me.

Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.

You can’t start a new life if you continue to dwell in your past.

Your outer charm and beauty attract me. Your inner beauty of kindness and a caring heart seduces me.

We are born to unfold the beauty of life and to adorn the universe with unique thoughts.

Never forget to love your enemies and pray for their well-being.

When you are ready, every door will open automatically for you.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

An action taken with positive thoughts will never produce negative results.

Ah! Summer is here. Celebrate the lights, dance with the blooming flowers, swim with the heart touching waves, sing under the dreamy starlight, dance with the winds, fall in love with the blue sky and the simple joys of life.

Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.

He who loves you deeply owns you without your knowledge.

Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.

Ah! Your heavenly smile makes my heart dance with the ecstasy of life.

In order to create a positive life, you have to have a positive vision and take creative actions.

When you are ready to be done with the day, praise yourself with love and kindness for the hard work and accomplishments made during the day.

He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun

To be a philosopher you do not need to be a professor but you do have to love and understand nature.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

You truly live when you have an abundant mindset and help others to create abundance.

A moment of kindness can fill your heart with infinite joy.

The currency of a happy life is not money, but it is pure love.

If you don’t exist, then for you nothing exists.

This moment is the most important and beautiful moment of your life. Live it, love it, and enjoy it!

Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ.

Our job is to make others feel better and to find happiness. It will ultimately make you happy and abundant.

All that matters in life is that you are happy with where you are, what you are, and with whom you are. Everything around you will be happy and smile with you. If that isn’t success, then what is?

Life is an incredible adventure into the mysterious unknown future.

A leader becomes great by inspiring others to do great things.

The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

Turn your failure into a fairytale.

Kindness is the fragrance of pure love.

Don’t worry. All of your problems will be solved in the end.

Act today. Think tomorrow.

Life is an opportunity to love and serve.

Start your day by awakening early to welcome the morning sun with a smile, love, and gratitude.

Always do what is right not what is convenient. This will reflect your love and kindness for humanity.

Every day of life is an adventure. Don’t fear to dare and never forget to enjoy it.

Fill life with emptiness to enjoy the abundance.