“Be the change that you wish to see
in the world.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever.”
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do
are in harmony.”
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight
you, and then you win.”
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of
truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and
murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the
end, they always fall. Think of it - always.”
“Where there is love there is life.”
“Seven Deadly Sins:
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the
strong.”
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom
to make mistakes.”
“God has no religion.”
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty
feet.”
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
“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.”
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he
becomes.”
“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better
than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the
service of others.”
“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.”
“The future depends on what you do today.”
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on
saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is
possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing
it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I
shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not
have it at the beginning.”
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become
dirty.”
“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following
resolve for the day:
- I shall not fear anyone on
Earth.
- I shall not bear ill will
toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth.
- And in resisting untruth,
I shall put up with all suffering.”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged
by the way its animals are treated.”
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning,
when I wake up, I am reborn.”
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important
that you do it.”
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the
homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name
of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot
appear to them except in the form of bread.”
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not
every man’s greed.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with
love.”
“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your
words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your
behavior.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior
becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your
habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because
your values become your destiny.”
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the
good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this
body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if
you do nothing, there will be no results.”
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an
indomitable will. (Young India, Volume 1, Issue 52; 1919)”
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is
the humblest imaginable.”
“Action expresses priorities.”
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
“My Life is My Message”
“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who
has any faith should be ashamed to worry about anything
whatsoever. ”
“I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I
see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.”
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror
reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one
another.”
“It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important.
You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may
not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that
doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know
what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there
will be no result.”
“Truth is one, paths are many.”
