"But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine."
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"But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine."
"I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed."
"The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon."
"God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith."
"As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins."
"If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken."
"The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark."
"The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness."
"Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves."
"Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong."
"As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian."
"And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend"
"The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God."
"The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world."
"The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity."
"The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work."
"The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith."
"A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions."
"Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace."
"The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem."