Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.
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Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.
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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
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Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
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Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen.
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The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.
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An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.
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As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.
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Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.
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Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.
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Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
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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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How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it.
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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
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It is your mind that creates the world.
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Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.
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It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
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The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.
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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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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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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.