Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

Life is greater than all art.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.