What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

Truth is the right designation of God.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.