Gautama Buddha Quotes
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By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
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Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.
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Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
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Learn to ne happy with what you have.
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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
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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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Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.
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Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.
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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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Live joyfully, without desire.
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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.
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Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.
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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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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
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Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.
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Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
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Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.
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Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
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Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
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For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.
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War ends only when people love each other.
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Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.