Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
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Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.
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One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.
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This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.
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Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.
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On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
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The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
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He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
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Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
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Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.
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Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
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There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
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Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect.
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There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.
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Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.
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Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.
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The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.
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The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.
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Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
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A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.