When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

There is no end to renunciation.

No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste.

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land.