"I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi."

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Abdurrahman Wahid

#Followers Quotes

“I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.”
“Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.”
“If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.”
“Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.”
“You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. And who knows how many knives!”
“Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.”

Source : From a lecture of journalism at the University of Turin, "La Stampa" Newspaper, April 14, 2009.
“I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are. That ocean of eternal peace is you. What is the difficulty that we suffer from? It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.”

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