Gautama Buddha Quotes

If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.

Gautama Buddha

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• If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Joyful