Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.
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A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.
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Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.
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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
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One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
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Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.
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Learn to ne happy with what you have.
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Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
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All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher.
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Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.
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A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
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Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'
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Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.
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There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.
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Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
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When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
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Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.
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If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
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There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.
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Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana.
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If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.