Gautama Buddha Quotes

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

Gautama Buddha

• Desire
• Growing Up
• Sorrows
• Wretched

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• When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Desire
  • Growing Up
  • Sorrows