Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
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Conquer a liar with truth.
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Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
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Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward.
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Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
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After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
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Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.
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In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.
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Believe there is good in the world.
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You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
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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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His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
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Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage Do not believe in conjecture Do not believe in authority, or teachers, or elders But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.
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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
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The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.
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May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.
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Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.
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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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You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
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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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Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.
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Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.