To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
Mahatma GandhiRead
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Interpretation
Anger and intolerance hinder our ability to understand others and the world around us.
This quote emphasizes the importance of remaining calm and open-minded in our interactions with others. When we allow anger and intolerance to take hold, we create barriers that prevent us from grasping the true nature of situations and the perspectives of others, ultimately leading to misunderstandings and conflict.
In practice
During a debate, one might quote Gandhi to emphasize the need for calm discussion despite differing opinions.
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.
The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
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