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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

Mahatma Gandhi
Lying, Missing, Secret
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.198, Rajpal & Sons

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

Mahatma Gandhi
Real, Kashmir, India
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Anger, Pride

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Spirit, Force
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.13, North Atlantic Books

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Toil, Habit

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spirit, Submission, Ahimsa

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

Mahatma Gandhi
Rights, Violence, Made

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Determination, Exercise
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Violence, Possibility
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.71, Rajpal & Sons

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Mahatma Gandhi
Education, Learning, Temptation
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.40, Courier Corporation

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

Mahatma Gandhi
Evil, Gita, Action
Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.125, Orient Paperbacks

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Mahatma Gandhi
Moral Growth, Names, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

Mahatma Gandhi
Death, Men, Live Free
Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

Continue to grow and evolve.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspiration, Evolve, Grows

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian, Becoming, Mets

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Revenge, Giving
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.198, Tara Publishing

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art, Voice, Life Is
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.174, A&C Black

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Choices, Today, Violence

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Development, Spinning

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Dictator, Pity

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Oneness, Soul
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religious, Women, Special
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Mahatma Gandhi
Women, Motherhood, Quality

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

Mahatma Gandhi
Want, Sects
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.43, A&C Black

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Men, Animal
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.50, Courier Corporation