Some Quotes to Honor Gandhiji's Birthday Observed Globally Today!
by Linda Living Joy Lorenzo on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 12:58pm
also known as Mahatma Gandhi.
Today is the 141st birthday of one of the world’s most notable peace-keepers: Mohandas Gandhi.
Countless observances and gatherings are celebrating the birth anniversary of Gandhiji around the world.
Residing in the minds of millions, Gandhiji was able to unite India like none other.
Gandhiji was a prophet of truth (Satyagraha) and ‘ahimsa’ (non-violence).
He started the ‘Satyagraha’ movement for the Indian freedom struggle.
He believed in living a simple life and in ‘Swadeshi’.
Gandhiji proved to the world that freedom can be achieved through the path of non-violence –
a true symbol of peace and truth.
On the eve of the birth anniversary of Gandhiji,
US ambassador Timothy J Roemer said the shining beacon of Gandhiji’s example has never been more relevant.
“The light it offers the world has never been more essential,”
Expressing concern over people forgetting Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals and remember him in a customary manner
on the birth anniversary, his grand daughter, Sumitra Gandhi Kulkarni said
that people should practise his teachings in their lives instead of just eulogising him on his birthday.
“People of this country are slowly forgetting Mahatma Gandhi
and engaged in just remembering him in a customary manner,”
The day is also observed as the International Day of Non-Violence by the United Nations.
In honor of this most Beloved Man and Mentor to us All...
I am sharing some of his most profound quotes...
"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present.
God has given me no control over the moment following. "
"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."
"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could."
"I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice."
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
"I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality."
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."
"If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty."
"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm."
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children."
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?"
"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands,
even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
"God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us."
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
"I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social,
political and religious. All act and react upon one another."
"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."
"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."
"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being."
"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life,
something with which nothing can be compared."
"My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him."
"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it."
"My life is my message."
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