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- Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or…
- The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents…
- Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
- Good government is no substitute for self-government.
- Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
- Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
- I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine…
- When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
- Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
- The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
- To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is…
- It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
- 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…
- The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
- Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
- Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far…
- Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
- At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when…
- Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into…
- There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
- The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest…
- The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,…
- Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.
- Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing…
- Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy…
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