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Soul Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

76 Soul quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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The soul of India lives in its villages, according to the quotes. They link love, truth, and music to the strength of the soul, and they say a single soul unites all humanity. The quotes also suggest that prayer, spinning wheels, and temple visits can calm and purify the soul.

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Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

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Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

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Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

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Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

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The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

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The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.

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The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

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A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

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A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

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In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

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A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore…

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You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to…

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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it…

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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself…

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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one…

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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a…

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Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas…

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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion,…

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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a…

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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me…

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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if…

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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to…

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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but…

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Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original…

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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like…

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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great…

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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

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All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

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We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

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Temple going is for the purification of the soul.

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Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

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The soul of India lives in its villages.

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Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.