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“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will.”

“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.”

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.”

“Don’t be dazzled by the splendour that comes to you from the West. Do not be thrown off your feet by this passing show. The Enlightened One has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing, and if you realise the nothingness of this material case that we see before us ever changing, then indeed there are treasures for you up above, and there is peace for you down here, peace which passeth all understanding, and happiness to which we are utter strangers. It requires and amazing faith, a divine faith and surrender of all that we see before us.

“In India we have three million people who have to be satisfied with one meal a day, and that meal consists of a chapatti containing no fat in it and a pinch of salt. You and I have no right to anything we have until these three million are clothed and fed better. You and I, who ought to know better, must adjust our wants, and even undergo voluntary starvation in order that they may be nursed, fed and clothed.

“The distinguishing characteristic of modern civilization is an indefinite multiplicity of human wants. The characteristic of ancient civilization is an imperative restriction upon and a strict regulation of these wants.”

“If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our descent to a state lower than brutality.”

“Just as one must not receive, so must one not possess anything which does not really need. It would be a breach of this principle to possess unnecessary foodstuffs, clothing or furniture. For instance, one must not keep a chair if one can do without it. In observing this principle one is led to a progressive simplification of one’s own life.”

“All of your scholarship, all of your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.”

“Purity of life is the highest and truest art.”

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within.”

“All is well with you even though everything seems dead wrong, if you are square with yourself.”

“True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.”

“The wife is not the husband’s bond slave but his companion and his help mate and an equal partner in all his joys and sorrows- as free as the husband to choose her own path.”

“You will guard your wife’s honour and be not her master, but her true friend. You will hold her body and her soul as sacred as I trust she will hold your body and your soul. To that end you will have to live a life of prayerful toil and simplicity and self-restraint. Let not either of you regard another as an object of his or her lust.”

“It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.”

“…….whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, try the following expedient: Recall the face of the poorest and most helpless man you have ever seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he be able to gain anything by it? Will it restore him control over his own life or destiny? In other words, will it lead to….self-rule for the hungry and spiritually starved millions of our countrymen? Then you will find your doubts and your self melting away.”

“The introduction of manual training will serve a double purpose in a poor country like ours. It will pay for the education of our children and teach them an occupation on which they can fall back in later life, if they choose, for earning a living. Such a system must make our children self-reliant. Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.”

“A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.”

“My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount upon distress of the exploitation of other nationalities. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.”

“Good travels at snail’s pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.”

“We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realise it. My faith helps me to discover new truths everyday.”

“I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than that of life itself.”

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.”

“Religions are different roads converging upon the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?”

“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.”

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.”