It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
Non-violence has to be observed in thought, word and deed. The measure of our non-violence will be the measure of our success.
Intuition and urge are two different things. You must learn to differentiate between the two.
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.
War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
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