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Suffering Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

52 Suffering quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi shares that suffering can be a teacher, as shown by Jesus and by Nanda’s quiet endurance. He believes there is no time limit for a satyagrahi’s capacity to suffer, and that true non‑violence comes from infinite love and willingness to bear pain. He also notes that civil disobedience prepares us for silent suffering.

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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

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Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

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Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

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

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My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

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I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

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Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

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There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

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India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

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Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

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My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

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I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely…

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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of…

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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining…

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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to…

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Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more…

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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration…

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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the…

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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain…

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We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may…

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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted…

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Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.…

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Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

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You can't lead a true life without suffering

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Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

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Nations are born out of travail and suffering

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The only way love punishes in by suffering.

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True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

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If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

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Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

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Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

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He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

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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.