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.”

A 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.

Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.

England.

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

“You civilised fellows are all cowards. Great men never look at a person’s exterior. They think of his heart.”

my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

It 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.