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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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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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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Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.

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If it is not truthful and not helpful, don’t say it.
If it is truthful and not helpful, don’t say it.
If it is not truthful yet helpful, don’t say it.
If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

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Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith

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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

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You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.

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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

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In separateness lies the world’s great misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.

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Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all

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Three things that can’t be hidden. The Sun, the Moon & the Truth

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An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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He is able who thinks he is able.

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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

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The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our own mind.

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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

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Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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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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Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

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In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.

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Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

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He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

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Life is a river always flowing, do not hold onto things, work hard.

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The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what’s skillful, the cleansing of one’s own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

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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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Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

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If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

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Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

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You only lose what you cling to.

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A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

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