“There are some actions from which an escape is a godsend both for the man who escapes and for those about him. Man, as soon as he gets back his consciousness of right, is thankful to the Divine mercy for the escape.”
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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: Attributed to Gandhi's Autobiography (The Story of My Experiments with Truth); the primary passage is not verbatim-confirmed here.
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Sometimes the best thing that can happen is being blocked from carrying out a wrong you were bent on. Once the heat passes and judgment returns, the near miss reads less as frustration than as relief, for you and for everyone the act would have harmed.
When to use it
- A driver's stalled car keeps him from a road-rage confrontation he'd have regretted for years.
- An investor arrives late to a scam and only later feels grateful the door closed before he wired money.
- Someone drafts a furious resignation, gets interrupted, and by morning is thankful it never sent.