Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.
What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.
The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint
Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye and everyone shall be blind
Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory.