"There is goodness as well as greatness..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.
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“Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.”
“My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.”
“If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.”
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“Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.”
“What a lot of things I don't need.”
“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”
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“wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state”
“The more we bestow the richer we become.”
“Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.”