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    Derek Walcott
    “Love After Love

    The time will come
    when, with elation
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror
    and each will smile at the other's welcome,

    and say, sit here. Eat.
    You will love again the stranger who was your self.
    Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
    to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

    all your life, whom you ignored
    for another, who knows you by heart.
    Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

    the photographs, the desperate notes,
    peel your own image from the mirror.
    Sit. Feast on your life.”
    ― Derek Walcott, Collected Poems, 1948-1984
    tags: love, poetry, self
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: dichotomy, fear, love, power, punishment
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
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  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
    1988 likes

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  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: day, death, night, rebirth, reincarnation, sleep
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: faith, humanity, ocean
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, attributed-no-source, difference, paradox, significance
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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  • #10
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion
    1812 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: honesty, justice, secrecy, transparency, truth, truth-telling
    1484 likes

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  • #12
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: compassion, enemies, friends, friendship, religion
    1121 likes

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  • #13
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: humanity, humility, mistakes, strength, wisdom
    1739 likes

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  • #14
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: humanism, jimi-hendrix, love, mahatma-gandhi, peace, philosophy, power
    1705 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, activism, fruit, goodness, make-a-difference
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  • #16
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: activism
    772 likes



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