No source exists
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Not found anywhere in his writings. The Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence states it cannot be traced, and sources disagree on who actually wrote it.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
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Exact match, Gutenberg 205
The most shared Gandhi quote in the world, next to what Gandhi actually published.
No source exists
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Not found anywhere in his writings. The Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence states it cannot be traced, and sources disagree on who actually wrote it.
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We but mirror the world. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.
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