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Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

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Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India Quotes

“The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.”

“A theory must be tempered with reality.”

“Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.”

“Ignorance is always afraid of change.”

“There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.”

“All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.”

“It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.”

“Those who boast are seldom the great.”

“It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.”

“O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.”

“Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.”

“A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.”

“Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.”

“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

“It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.”

“By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thout keepst me free. Lest I forgot them they never venture to leave me alone. But day passes by after day and thou art not seen. If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.”

“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”

“Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.”

“Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.”

“Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.”

“To lose patience is to lose the battle.”

“We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.”

“Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.”

“Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?”

“There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.”

“It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.”

“If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?”

“Merely to exist is not enough.”

“Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.”

“It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.”

“Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.”

“A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.”

“The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.”

“Repentance is a gift of God's grace.”

“It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.”

“All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.”

“Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.”

“Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.”