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May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

Mahatma Gandhi
Gratitude, Hands, May

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Passion, Thinking

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

Mahatma Gandhi
Heart, Men, Victory

Whatever I do is out of love.

Mahatma Gandhi
Source: gandhiking.ning.com

We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Philosophical, Heart
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ocean, Treasure, Priceless
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art, Children, Writing
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Strength, Leadership

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

Mahatma Gandhi
Trust, Europe, People
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.232, Vintage

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

Mahatma Gandhi
Coercion, Chaos, Ends

Anything that exists is possible.

Mahatma Gandhi
Simple, Simple Living
"Segments of the economy, 1956, a symposium: the Fifth Economics-in-Action Program sponsored jointly by Republic Steel Corporation and Case Institute of Technology". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, Republic Steel Corporation, Case Institute of Technology, 1957.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Would Be, Obedience
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Normal, Individual

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

Mahatma Gandhi
Honor, Within You

The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian, Like You, Christ

Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.

Mahatma Gandhi
Grace, Desire, Needs

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Intellectual, Victory, Hussain

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Self, Suffering
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.47, Courier Corporation

A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hands, Perfect, Islam
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

Mahatma Gandhi
Killing, Machinery, Goods
Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

There is no god higher than truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Truth, Religion

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Responsibility, Accountability
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Atheist, Permit
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

Mahatma Gandhi
Evil, Operations, Protest
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.162, Tara Publishing

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Ocean, Judging
Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.93, New Directions Publishing