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Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“You can't hurt me without my permission.”

Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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A leader of the Indian independence movement, lawyer, politician, and social activist, Mahatma Gandhi is revered as the 'Father of the Nation'. He advocated for non-violence and unity between Hindus and Muslims, leading the Indian struggle for independence and profoundly influencing history both in India and around the world. more

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“But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.”

Mean Facts Faith In God

Book:Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.”

Made Stories Atheism Creation Contrary Impress Incline

Book:Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.”

Easy Suicide Commit Contemplating

Book:My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.”

Thinking Today Faces Speak Audience Impossible Strange Speech Meetings South Engaged South Africa Idle Avoided Shyness

Book:Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.”

Felt India Seeking Aptitude

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.”

Ifs Heart Real Helping Problem Joy Teacher Share Youth Sorrow Solve Aspiration Guardian Joys And Sorrows

Book:My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

“Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.”

Heart May Forget Keys Forgiving Never Forget Forgive And Forget Happier Life

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.”

May Reason Claims Command Superiority Homage

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“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.”

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.”

Should Helping Parent Conditions Ideals Minimum True Education

Book:Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth