Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

Life is one indivisible whole.

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.

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 imperfections.