Mahatma Gandhi Love Quotes & Sayings

Where there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

People continued - regardless of all that leads man forward - to try to unite the incompatibles: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

In the 1960s Martin Luther King Jr. devised a creative strategy of engagement that has since been adapted to many causes. He fused together the power of love as described in the Sermon on the Mount and Mahatma Gandhi's method of nonviolent resistance. "Prior to reading Gandhi," he said, "I had about concluded that the ethics of Jesus were only effective in individual relationships." Gandhi showed him that a movement on behalf of a moral cause could be expressed in a loving way. "I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom. — Philip Yancey

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

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all. — Mahatma Gandhi

When your intellect, once perverted by listening to all manner of arguments, is totally absorbed in the contemplation of God, you will then attain yoga. When a person is firmly established in samadhi - samadhi means fixing the mind on God - he is filled with ecstatic love and, therefore, can be completely indifferent to this world. — 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

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. — Mahatma Gandhi

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills, and in it you too have the only method of saving your people from enslavement. — 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, 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

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live. — Haile Selassie

I began to see that creating a healthy family, in which members develop the ability for mutual respect and caring, is a prerequisite for a more peaceful world. For, it is the family that creates the social fabric of our culture, as Mahatma Gandhi so poignantly illustrated, when he said:
If we are to teach real peace on this world ... we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their own innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless, idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering
Sweeping floors, wiping noses, singing children to sleep ... such is the work of peacemakers. Blessed be the peacemakers. — Shea Darian

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

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — 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

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. — Mahatma Gandhi

If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning. — Maya Angelou

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

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the law of life. — 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

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the subtlest force in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love. — Mahatma Gandhi

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair. — Mahatma Gandhi

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness. — 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

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification. — 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

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane. — Mahatma Gandhi

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. 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. I — Mahatma Gandhi

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all. — Mahatma Gandhi

My religion teaches me to love all equally. — Mahatma Gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ. — Mahatma Gandhi

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and 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

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

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is impossible for pure love. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forgiveness is choosing to love. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love. — Mahatma Gandhi

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love. — Mahatma Gandhi

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself. — 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

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

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

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