Daily Inspiration Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi’s line has the spare force of a bedtime instruction and the moral ambition of a political program. “Before he lies down to sleep” isn’t soft imagery; it’s a deadline. Anger, in this framing, is not a righteous flame to be nursed overnight but a toxin that keeps working after the lights go out, turning the private self into a staging ground for tomorrow’s reprisals. The sentence’s power comes from its quiet compression: it shrinks the vast drama of conflict into one ordinary human ritual, implying that the revolution begins not in the street but in the nervous system.

The intent is practical, even tactical. Gandhi understood anger as combustible fuel: it can energize resistance, but it also tempts you into violence, ego, and revenge - the very forces nonviolent struggle tries to disarm. “Forget” is a deliberately demanding verb. He doesn’t say “manage,” “express,” or “process.” He asks for a kind of spiritual and psychological unhooking, a nightly refusal to let injury become identity.

Subtext: anger is contagious and cumulative. Let it sit, and it hardens into a story about who deserves what, which is how conflicts metastasize. In Gandhi’s context - communal tensions, colonial domination, and mass movements under strain - the private discipline of a single person becomes public strategy. A leader who can’t put down anger at night will wake up looking for someone to punish. A movement that can will wake up looking for a method.