Mahatma Gandhi Friend Quotes & Sayings

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this." — Mahatma Gandhi

While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils. — Mahatma Gandhi

O fire, O soul
Give us the spark of God-eternal,
That friend to friend and friend to foe,
One shall we stand before HIM.

And the flame of Jatin,
And the fire of Bhagath,
And the love of the Mahatma in all,
O, lift the flag high,
Lift the flag high,
This is the flag of the Revolution. — Raja Rao

The good man is the friend of all living things. — Mahatma Gandhi

Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas. — Gioconda Belli

There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life? — Dalai Lama XIV

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. — Mahatma Gandhi

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there. — Mahatma Gandhi

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote. — Martin Heidegger

It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend. — Mahatma Gandhi

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. — Mahatma Gandhi

The wisest thing to do if you're living in hell is to make yourself comfortable. — Charles Bukowski

But we're all looking for the place we belong. And what is home, anyway, but what we cobble together out of our changing selves? Maybe there isn't any it, as my friend said, only the longing — Abigail Thomas

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way. — Mahatma Gandhi

I feel strange, like there's an unformed, unfinished, sad little emotion bottled up in me, and I need to fuck it away. — Carolyn Crane

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me. — Mahatma Gandhi

-Well, what happens with the River of Hades in the end?
-Not a thing. It's an infernal punishment precisely because nothing happens. — Kobo Abe

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away — Sophocles

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. — Mahatma Gandhi

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak. — Mahatma Gandhi

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is my conviction that nothing enduring
can be built on violence.
The only safe way to overcome an enemy
is to make of that enemy a friend. — Mahatma Gandhi

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend — Mahatma Gandhi

1. It is necessary for me to be extremely frugal for some time, till I have paid what I owe. 2. To endeavor to speak truth in every instance; to give nobody expectations that are not likely to be answered, but aim at sincerity in every word and action - the most amiable excellence in a rational being. 3. To apply myself industriously to whatever business I take in hand, and not divert my mind from my business by any foolish project of suddenly growing rich; for industry and patience are the surest means of plenty. 4. I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever.17 — Walter Isaacson

Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend? — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi

Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship. — Mahatma Gandhi