Gautama Buddha quote: "In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:

For the good of the many, for the happi...
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Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen ...
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is...
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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
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Doubt everything. Find your own light.
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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it
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Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three condi...
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Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by ge...
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What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, env...
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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading
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How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.
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Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture,...
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These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world: GAUTAMA BUDDHA

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
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Attachment leads to suffering.
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Nothing is forever except change.
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Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
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Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
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You only lose what you cling to.
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True love is born from understanding.
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Il n'existe rien de constant si ce n'est le changement.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wi...
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All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever ex...
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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own mi...
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Tous les êtres vivants sont bouddha et ont en eux Sagesse et vertus.
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that ...
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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wh...
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Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with g...
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When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it...
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau...
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A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness."
Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, the...
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Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
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With our thoughts we make the world.
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To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spirit...
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What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...
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There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
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If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not a...
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You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearles...
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Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out <...
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Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others ...
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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
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The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.
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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
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Patience is the highest asceticism.
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Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts o...
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
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Faciles à voir sont les fautes d'autrui ; celles du soi sont difficiles à voir.
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Quel que soit le nombre de saintes paroles que vous lisez, que vous prononciez, quel bien vous feron...
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De celui qui dans la bataille a vaincu mille milliers d'hommes et de celui qui s'est vaincu lui-mêm...
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Toute conquête engendre la haine, car le vaincu demeure dans la misère. Celui qui se tient paisibl...
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or ...
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle and it will never reduce the power of its light...
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Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. ...
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Une seule parole riche de sens qui procure la paix quand on l'entend vaut mieux que les mille mots d...
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Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the fooli...
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Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his ...
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It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people...
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Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a littl...
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Those who consider the inessential to be essential
And see the essential as inessential
...
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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disc...
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The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.
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Purity or impurity depends on oneself,
No one can purify another.
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Greater in battle
than the man who would conquer
a thousand-thousand men,
is he who w...
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If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with ...
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The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a ...
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To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back afte...
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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
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To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
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Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
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You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All thin...
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Through countless births in the cycle of existence
I have run, not finding
although seek...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of ...
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Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
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És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
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Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out
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Doubt everything; find your own light.
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Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
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May all that have life be delivered from suffering
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we...
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You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
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The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
SIDDH&ATILDE;RTHA GAUTAMA BUDDHA

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one...
BUDDHA BUDDHA

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no o...
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wi...
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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final ...
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It canno...
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shorten...
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we beco...
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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought,...
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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
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Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first bro...
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not a...
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A jug fills drop by drop.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls...
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He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a...
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by th...
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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
BUDDHA

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and aff...
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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a sh...
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Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water u...
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Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows th...
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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disc...
BUDDHA

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or...
BUDDHA

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will d...
BUDDHA

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...
BUDDHA

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew,...
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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and...
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the o...
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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he...
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An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your bod...
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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.
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Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it or because it is traditional, or beca...
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply be...
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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you mer...
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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace...
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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
BUDDHA

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
BUDDHA

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no o...
BUDDHA

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this d...
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You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.
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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thought...
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They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead ot...
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it...
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Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and w...
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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain...
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final ...
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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that ...
BUDDHA

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, an...
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Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one...
BUDDHA

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this i...
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Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable...
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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying ...
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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
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Born out of concern for all beings.
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Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
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On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, wi...
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There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not startin...
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You only lose what you cling to.
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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
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Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and r...
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I am the miracle.
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It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of oth...
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the...
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My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not give...
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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the ...
BUDDHA

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
BUDDHA

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in...
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Again a different meaning has to be understood.
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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy...
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Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he esca...
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain pea...
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
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Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shorten...
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Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau...
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Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.
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He is able who thinks he is able.
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Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
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It is better to travel well than to arrive.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not sta...
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Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.
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Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace ...
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In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

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In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

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