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Oneself Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total…
- It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for…
- One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
- Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears,…
- Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
- My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence…
- Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and…
- To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better…
- To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
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