Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Joy

• When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Disappointment, Joy, Doubt

• Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Lying, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Joy, Spirit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

• The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Sacrifice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Problem of Education”

• No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Names, Long

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

• When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Finding Yourself, Serving Others

• That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Looks, Cages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiring, Art, Inspirational Life

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.76, Oxford University Press

• Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Joy, Helping

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

• Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spring, Joy, Sake

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

• Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Soul, Force

• I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Joy, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Light, Joy, Wish

  Mahatma Gandhi (1972). “Collected Works”

• Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Uplifting, Pain, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Together, Littles

• ...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Men, Joy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

• If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teacher, Real, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.359, Jaico Publishing House

• Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Godly, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

• Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Suffering, Ineffable

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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