Mahatma Gandhi Thoughts on Love

Honored in India as the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi was a man of ethics, values, and firm discipline. He had great thoughts on Life, Truth, Love, Peace, Education, Success and many more which inspires people worldwide even today. In this blog, we have consolidated “Mahatma Gandhi Thoughts on Love”. Happy Reading…!!

• God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
• Hate the sin, love the sinner.
• Hatred can be overcome only by love.
• Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time? What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred?
• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
• It is not non-violence if we merely love those that love us.  It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.  I know how difficult it is to follow this grand law of love.  But are not all great and good things difficult to do?
• Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
• Love never asks it gives.
• Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
• One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.
• Power is of two kinds.  One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.  Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
• The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
• The friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn’t worth the name.
• The law of love could be understood and learned through children.
• The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
• There is no love where there is no will.
• There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.
• To forgive is not to forget.  The merit lies in loving in spite of vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend.  There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
• To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
• True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
• Trusting one another, however, can never mean trusting with the lip and mistrusting in the heart.
• What barrier is there that love cannot break?
• Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
• Whenever you have truth, it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
• Where love is, there God is also.
• Where there is love there is life.
• You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
• A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair, whereas true love is self-effacing and demands no consideration.
• A man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world.  It was a perfect act.
• Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

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