Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
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Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.
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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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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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All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.
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There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.
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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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Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.
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Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.
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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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Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'
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What's done to the children is done to society.
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From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.
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Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established.
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By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
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Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
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Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.
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Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.
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If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
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Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
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Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.
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Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
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Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.
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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.