A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Fasting Futile Incessant Longing Restraint Self Unless

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Mahatma Gandhi

At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

Milan Kundera

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

Alexander MacLaren

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

William Howard Taft

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

Tariq Ramadan

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

Mahatma Gandhi

Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

Wendell Berry

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

Marya Mannes

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

Hildegard of Bingen

What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.