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"If you want to change the world, start with yourself."
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."
"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."
"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."
"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
Explore more quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
"Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent."
"There is no such thing as 'too insane' unless others turn up dead due to your actions."
"Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages."
"For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments are equally imperfect."
"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."
"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope."
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