Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now.

Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

I have to reinvent myself.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

You must change your life.

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

I saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.

If we choose to believe that we're responsible for our experiences, the good and the so-called bad, then we have the opportunity to outgrow the effects of the past. We can change. We can be free.