Charkha Quotes

#1. The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Charkha is an instrument of service.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. 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

#12. The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. People don't want advice ... only corroboration.

John Steinbeck

#16. You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming.

Kristin Chenoweth

#17. Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it's really any and all of us.

Michael N. Nagler

#18. I often felt in those days that to be stuck in grief was to feel kidnapped against one's will and forced to go to some foreign country, all the while just longing to go back home.

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

#19. But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.

Lev Shestov

#20. I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!

Bernie Marsden

#21. We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#22. I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

Bindi Irwin

#23. My heart was beating out of my chest.

Swoosie Kurtz