“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”
Education“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
Peace“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”
Education“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”
Religion“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”
Society“Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.”
Life“Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.”
Age“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”
Truth“The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.”
Life“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.”
Truth“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”
Alone“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”
Nature“Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”
Fear“Those who know how to think need no teachers.”
Teacher“I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.”
God“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”
Morning“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
God“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.”
Happiness“Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.”
Great“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Life“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Strength“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.”
Love