"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-control
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on anger
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

Gandhi, Mahatma on inheritance
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"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

Gandhi, Mahatma on jesus christ
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

Gandhi, Mahatma on law and lawyers
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."

Gandhi, Mahatma on idleness
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

Gandhi, Mahatma on indolence
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

Gandhi, Mahatma on policy
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"Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving."

Gandhi, Mahatma on occupation
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"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being."

Gandhi, Mahatma on nonviolence
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"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."

Gandhi, Mahatma on materialism
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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

Gandhi, Mahatma on marriage
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"Where there is love there is life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."

Gandhi, Mahatma on peace
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"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

Gandhi, Mahatma on leadership
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities."

Gandhi, Mahatma on responsibility
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"There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint."

Gandhi, Mahatma on restraint
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."

Gandhi, Mahatma on right and rightness
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"Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason."

Gandhi, Mahatma on reason
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"The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice."

Gandhi, Mahatma on sacrifice
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-confidence
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"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on quality
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"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."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

Gandhi, Mahatma on potential
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"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

Gandhi, Mahatma on poverty and the poor
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"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"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."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?"

Gandhi, Mahatma on profits
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"Patience means self-suffering."

Gandhi, Mahatma on patience
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