Gautama Buddha Quotes

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If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

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Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

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Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.

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There are no chains like hate…dwelling on your brother’s faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.

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As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.

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There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

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Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

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‎Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

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Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

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The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it.

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Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

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Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

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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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More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

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The trouble is, you think you have time.

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With our thoughts we make the world.

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If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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Those who consider the inessential to be essential and see the essential as inessential Don’t reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention.

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What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.

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All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

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Just to say ‘I believe’ or ‘I do not doubt’ does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.

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The Gift of Truth excels all other gifts.

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Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat.

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Be greatly aware of the present.

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I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.

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Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out.

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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next.

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Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon…. If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

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Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think.

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Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.

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The greatest prayer is patience.

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Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.

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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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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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The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.