| Some of my Favorite Quotes |
- When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth
and love always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a
time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think
of it, always.
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- New There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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- 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 the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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- We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
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- The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure
without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character;
business without morality; science without humanity;
and worship without sacrafice.
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- Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is
momentary.
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- There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's
greed.
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- Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort
is full victory.
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- An eye for an eye, making the whole world blind.
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- Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service
or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately,
our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not
only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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- Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important
that you do it.
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- Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with
good.
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- Where there is love there is life.
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- There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few
drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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- Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever.
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- It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international
affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts
of one people from those of another.
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- It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured
by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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- Where love is, there God is also.
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- Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant
abandonment of one's own religion.
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- We are merely the instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore
ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We
must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if
these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
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- You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body,
but you will never imprison my mind.
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