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“There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
― Mahatma Ghandi

“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“What barrier is there that love cannot break?”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"

[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There’s nothing wrong with conceptualization per se; but when we take our opinions about any event to be some kind of absolute truth and fail to see that they are opinions, then we suffer. That’s false suffering.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

“My dog doesn’t worry about the meaning of life.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen: Love & Work

“We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen: Love & Work

“If we can accept things just the way they are, we’re not going to be greatly upset by anything.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen: Love & Work

“Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

“The best way to let go is to notice the thoughts as they come up and to acknowledge them.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen: Love & Work

“If we cease looking, searching, what are we left with? We’re left with what’s been right there at the center all the time. Underneath all that searching there is distress. There is unease. The minute that we realize that, we see that the point isn’t the search, but rather the distress and unease which motivate the search. That’s the magic moment—when we realize that searching outside of ourselves is not the way.”
― Charlotte J. Beck, Everyday Zen

“When we’re lost in thought, when we’re dreaming, what have we lost? We’ve lost reality. Our life has escaped us.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

“So there are two kinds of suffering. One is when we feel we’re being pressed down; as though suffering is coming at us from without, as though we’re receiving something that’s making us suffer. The other kind of suffering is being under, just bearing it, just being it.”
― Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

“The Death of Peace of Mind” by Bad Omens is playing loud enough to hurt my ears, and when I try to turn it down, he grabs my wrist without looking at me. “Don’t touch my fucking radio.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

“I try and fail to use my voice. If I tell him what happened and how many times, he’ll think I’m dirtier than he already does. Used. Worthless. Or he’ll say I’m a liar. He might not believe me, and then I’d be called an attention-seeker, a manipulator – toxic.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

“I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am ... You are a shit.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I want to be inside your darkest everything”
― Frida Kahlo, The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait