Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Make of yourself a light.
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Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
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We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
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The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.
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Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
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Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.
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When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.
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Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.
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Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
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They were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.
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What's done to the children is done to society.
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Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
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Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.
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I am always at the beginning.
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Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.
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Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.
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Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.
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To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
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Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.
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Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.
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Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.
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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 foolish who do not know the true law.
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Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen.
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Live every act fully, as if it were your last.