“I began to take an exclusive fruit diet or to fast on the Ekadashi day, and also to observe Janmashtami and similar holidays.”
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Probable attribution
This saying is widely associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but the attribution is not supported by a reliable primary source.
Likely origin: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, M.K. Gandhi (1927) — a mid-narrative sentence, not a standalone maxim.
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Taking on fixed practices — a plain diet, regular fasts, marked holy days — builds a scaffolding that steadies appetite and orders the year around something chosen rather than random. The worth lies less in any single rule than in the deliberate structure it creates.
When to use it
- A student sets fixed study hours and a screen-free evening to give the week a reliable shape.
- Someone keeps a weekly fast day, less for the diet than for the steadiness the routine gives.
- A family marks the same small rituals each year, and the calendar stops feeling shapeless.