Buddha Quotes
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He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
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To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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What we think, we become.
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
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Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
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Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
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With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
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A jug fills drop by drop.
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.