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Topic: Quotable Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi

• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love or ahimsa.
• Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
• The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded. My creed is service of God and therefore of humanity.
• For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
• Human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.
• That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people’s servants.
• God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.
• Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. My nonviolence bids me dedicate myself to the service of minorities. Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.
• Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive one, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.
• The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.
• Men’s triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by the struggle for mutual service.

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