As like Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi was a man that did as well sacrifice for his own ideas I watched a movie on him last week and certainly he had many people much like other people that are activists in some sort but was he an idealists? Did he do what he had done in vain?
I thought I would place on a few of his quotes.
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi - We must be the change we wish to see.
Mahatma Gandhi - Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi - The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi - An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi - When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
Mahatma Gandhi - Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi - What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi - The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma Gandhi - Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
What he just an idealist?
yes, i think he was.....
ReplyDeleteI am just pondering why idealist as many as there are have made such a powerful impression on us Tess.
ReplyDeletebecause as realists we want hope
ReplyDeleteWhat inspires hope if I may ask?
ReplyDelete"first they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you and then you win"
ReplyDeletenothing is ever done in vain and justice does not make the seeker an idealist but rather is an idea that seekers seek
Neat as within the idea comes the justice within the will to triumph and be inspired si?
ReplyDeletesomeone who dares to take a chance and look at something a second time. someone who listens to that little voice within them.....
ReplyDeleteor it is for me anyway......
with what i went through......for sometime.....the realist in me recognized what was before me....
the idealist showed me a better way.....
Tessie, I certainly can relate with this, hence we are inspired and perhaps we come to be a realistic idealist perhaps, just perhaps so.
ReplyDeletemore like an idealist realist
ReplyDeleteEither way it's all good, I was thinking about and thought I would place it out there. As I did that repost on Martin Luther King.
ReplyDeletetell me, why show the picture of ghandi above from the back....
ReplyDeleteinteresting
ReplyDeleteAs was your page Tee, I hope that things are slowly going better for you after the surgeries.
ReplyDelete"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS."
ReplyDeleteMahatma Gandhi
Its been my Mantra ... thanks for placing these writes on. A lot can be learned here. :)
I just felt when I turned this on that I would place in another inspirational person, with ideal as I did prior too with Martin L. King yesterday. Inspiration is something that is rather significant to me as it's tied within determination.
ReplyDeleteThe picture depicts the question.
... the reason why you have it photographed from behind ...
ReplyDeleteYes...
ReplyDeleteSome won't understand why it was being portrayed as such.
ReplyDeletePardon I edited some ... :)
to be honest...for a long a long while even in college and earlier ...i did not care much for mahatma gandhi's ideologies...though he is the father of our nation , but somehow i always felts that he was too much of an idealistic person and a lot of decisions that were pivotal for india because of him worked all wrong....i till date do not know whether giving in to the british policy of divide and rule or allowing hindustan to be divided into india and pakistan was intelligent or not....
ReplyDeletebut that does not take away the inherent knowledge, maturity and strength of the man and his wisdom on a lot of things....wonderful quotes...
Why the phrase "just an idealist"? We all need ideals which we then do our best to live up to, they give us direction, goals.
ReplyDeleteHope comes from knowing we can do better, we can change.
I have to agree with djdx .... we all have our own ideals .... its what makes one person different to another. Its just that some people speak out their ideals and thankfully they do because it encourages others to think.
ReplyDeletehe was a wise man
ReplyDeleteWe all do need ideals there is not any time within history where there were not ideals and ones that set the ideals for us we by way of choice choose in what we find of value and give each and everyone of us inspiration. A world without inspiration or ideals is a world without any good infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteLynne I could not agree more, and thank you for the translation as sometimes I do get the jest of what DJ is saying but you expanded on it - there is a topic encouragement...just a morning thought :)
ReplyDelete.................flowing with a neutrality he was, as many others Caroline. ~smiling~
ReplyDeleteGandhi was just a human being without perfection. As we all are, but he seemingly inspired many around the world of all areas and walks of life. Of course he had a back up and would never have been able to do what he did if he didn't have the monies and people that surrounded him. But if we forget about the person and look at the words which most of us do there is inspiration there. When I listened to the audio of Martin Luther King, I still get goose bumps, when I listen to John F. Kennedy speaking and as well there are others that I have heard speak President Obama, whom is not Martin Luther King by any means or stretch of the imagination but before his term in office I listen to him for two years and I thought he was a speaker that was so much at par with inspiring people. There are so many people that are inspiring within different ways, like a athlete within a sport, he or she always does need that coach to aid them within their mindset, as half of what one does is physical the other half is how we cognitively thing.
ReplyDeleteIf not more...
Gandhiji would have made a wonderful Saint but he was a lousy politician. Politicians and Sainthood never go together.
ReplyDeleteLOL !!
ReplyDeleteVery true! :)
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