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Quotes about Life by Mahatma Gandhi

  • Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
  • Life is one indivisible whole.
  • Love is the law of life.
  • There is more to life than increasing its speed.
  • Your life is your message.
  • To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
  • Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
  • Where there is love there is life.
  • Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starvings?
  • The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
  • Faith alone is the sun of life.
  • My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
  • Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
  • Let your life be your message.
  • My life is my message.
  • The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
  • Life is greater than all art.
  • I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!
  • Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
  • You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
  • Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.