"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
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“Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.”
“Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.”
“Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.”
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“After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
“In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.”
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“But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.”
“The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.”
“Come my little one, and give me your hand.”