Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Simplicity

• I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Simplicity, Islam

  Young India article on September 23, 1924. "My Jail Experiences". Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 29, p. 133, 1960.

• There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

• Live simply so that others may simply live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Simple, Diversity

• Simplicity is the essence of universality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Simplicity, Universality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.87, Rajpal & Sons

• Live simply that others might simply live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Simplicity, Community

• If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Intelligent

• If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simplicity, Spirit, Should

• Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Opportunity, Simple

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.62, Vintage

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Lying, Fall

• There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Greatness, Simplicity, Wealth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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