Gandhi Love Quotes & Sayings

Just like you can't punish anyone without punishing yourself, you can't love anyone without loving yourself. — Debasish Mridha

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial. — Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love. — Mahatma Gandhi

To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Always be excited about your life. Try to find and create beauty in and around you. Give away your love and smiles as much as you can. Be content and happy with what you have. — Debasish Mridha

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. - MAHATMA GANDHI — Pema Chodron

To find joy in life, it is our responsibility and duty to love and serve others. — Debasish Mridha

Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has. — Mahatma Gandhi

Never forget to love your enemies and pray for their well-being. — Debasish Mridha

In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence. — Martin Luther King Jr.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi

For every Christian feels the same, however vaguely he may do so. Socialism, Communism, Anarchism' Salvation Armies, the growth of crime, freedom from toil, the increasingly absurd luxury of the rich and increased misery of the poor, the fearfully rising number of suicides-are all indications of that inner contradiction which must and will be resolved. And, of course, resolved in such a manner that the law of love will be recognized and all reliance on force abandoned. — Mahatma Gandhi

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love has more force than a besieging army. — Mahatma Gandhi

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. -Mahatma Gandhi — Kenneth Eade

Hate the sin, love the sinner. — Mahatma Gandhi

True love not only attracts hearts, but it also shines like the sun. — Debasish Mridha

Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [ ... ] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him. — Karl Pilkington

Nothing happens easily in our lives. To get something, you have to attract it with the power of your love. — Debasish Mridha

I love the morning sun because it enlightens my heart and teaches me how to love others with an abundance of warmth and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live. — Mahatma Gandhi

If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives. — Mahatma Gandhi

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love has no ad hoc principle; it is universal. — Debasish Mridha

Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ. — Neem Karoli Baba

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours. — Mahatma Gandhi

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love. — Debasish Mridha

Here's an interesting form of murder we came up with: assassination. You know what's interesting about assassination? Well, not only does it change those popularity polls in a big fucking hurry, but it's also interesting to notice who it is we assassinate. Did you ever notice who it is? Stop to think who it is we kill? It's always people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, John Lennon, they all said, "Try to live together peacefully." BAM! Right in the fucking head. Apparently we're not ready for that. — George Carlin

I shoot with my pen with the bullets of love. — Debasish Mridha

The only way love punishes in by suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi

To find yourself: be yourself, trust yourself, and love yourself. — Debasish Mridha

Let prosperity flow into you like the waves of love and kindness that fill your heart and mind. — Debasish Mridha

Never forget to give. If you have nothing to give, then give your love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Where there is life, there is love. — Mahatma Gandhi

Let us kill each other with love and kindness - not with hatred and guns. — Debasish Mridha

The best way of life, is the way of love. — Debasish Mridha

There comes a moment when you realize what matters the most in your life. Let that moment be now and that matter be your love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Give everything away. Create an emptiness to fill again and again with love. — Debasish Mridha

Humanity reveals her inner beauty through the interplay of gratitude, love, and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Blood is thicker than water - and many see something ridiculous, or worse, about anyone who doesn't know this. In his discussion of Gandhi's autobiography, George Orwell expresses admiration for Gandhi's courage but is repelled by Gandhi's rejection of special relationships - of friends and family, of sexual and romantic love. Orwell describes this as "inhuman," and goes on to say: "The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals." To — Paul Bloom

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is not a place; it is a feeling in your being. — Debasish Mridha

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate. — Mahatma Gandhi

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Success in business is important. Success as a human being with values, character, kindness, and love is much more important. — Debasish Mridha

Kindness is the ability to love someone in such a way that she will remember your kindness for the rest of her life. — Debasish Mridha

Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God. — Yann Martel

I love you every day as if it is Valentine's day. — Debasish Mridha

I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

Let us work together for unity and love. — Mahatma Gandhi

Life is the most magnificent dance floor of love. Dance with love to feel the joy of life. — Debasish Mridha

There is no love where there is no will — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever. — Mahatma Gandhi

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is choosing to love. — Mahatma Gandhi

Your silence holds the mysterious and beautiful secrets of your life. Feel it, love it, adore it, live it, and enjoy it. — Debasish Mridha

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. — Mahatma Gandhi

I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either. — Marcus Samuelsson

If you are truly in love with this world and your life, then you will lose the sense of angst. — Debasish Mridha

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is no love which asks for a return. — Mahatma Gandhi

Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience ... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men. — Mahatma Gandhi

The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving. — Debasish Mridha

What barrier is there that love cannot break? — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. — Ray Bradbury

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite. — Mahatma Gandhi

You know, I gave you the benefit of the doubt earlier when I first encountered you, the raging beast - oh I mean bitch. But now
I truly think that if greats who devoted themselves and achieved in some way at killing evil with kindness like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, well I think if any of them met you... they truly would break that seal of devotion and beat the bloody shit out of you."
"I take that as a compliment."
"Oh, I know you do. — Chelsea Ballinger

Oh my Valentine! I want to wake up and enjoy every sunrise with you and vanish into your hand at the sunset of my life. — Debasish Mridha

To live a wonderful life, be curious and impregnate your thoughts with kindness, compassion, and pure love. — Debasish Mridha

I have no special gift. With deep love, I give what I have. — Debasish Mridha

The greatest power that a human possesses is the power of pure love. — Debasish Mridha

Love and exclusive possession can never go together. — Mahatma Gandhi

The old and simple truth that it is natural for men to help and to love one another, but not to torture and to kill one another, became ever clearer, so that fewer and fewer people were able to believe the sophistries by which the distortion of the truth had been made so plausible. — Mahatma Gandhi

When all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself. — Mahatma Gandhi

To fill our lives with joy, the morning sun touches our hearts with the warmth of her kindness and the light of her love. Let us be like the sun touch someone's life with kindness every morning. — Debasish Mridha

Only he Who is smitten with the arrows of love, Knows its power. — Mahatma Gandhi

Start your day by awakening early to welcome the morning sun with a smile, love, and gratitude. — Debasish Mridha

Bapu Ghandi said, "All religions are true." I just want to love God, " I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.
My embarassment was contagious. No one said anything. It happened that we were not far from the statue of Gandhi on the esplanade. Stick in hand, an impish smile on his lips, a twinkle in his eyes, the Mahatma walked. I fancy that he heard our conversation, but that he paid even greater attention to my heart, Father cleared his throat and said in a half-voice, " I suppose that's what wer're all trying to do - love God. — Yann Martel

There is not love where there is no will. — Indira Gandhi

Life is an opportunity to love and serve. — Debasish Mridha

The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself. — Debasish Mridha

I am not the human being that you see. I am the light. In my heart, I feel dances of electromagnetic waves of love and spirit. — Debasish Mridha

My love simply greater than you always. Your each breath cuts me. — Mahatma Gandhi

You attract others with your inner lights of positivity, love, and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana. — Mahatma Gandhi

If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love. — Debasish Mridha

Your eyes reflect the beauty which no one can see except that special person whose soul is lost in your love. — Debasish Mridha

As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual. Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you. — Mahatma Gandhi

In the end, you will forget to love, and you will not have the ability to offend. When you have the ability to love, love and forget to offend. — Debasish Mridha

There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably. — Rose George

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man. — Mahatma Gandhi