My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

by Mahatma Gandhi

“Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try.”

reformer cannot afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform. True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world.

A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth.

has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Truth is like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mine of truth the richer the discovery of the gems buried there, in the shape of openings for an ever greater variety of service.

‘Hate the sin and not the sinner’

Poets do not influence all alike, for everyone is not evolved in an equal measure.