Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.
Attachment leads to suffering.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.
The Gift of Truth excels all other gifts.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Trees on a river bank, a woman in another man’s house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.
If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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.
“A man asked Gautama Buddha, “I want happiness.” Buddha said, “First remove “I,” that’s Ego, then remove “want,” that’s Desire. See now you are left with only “Happiness.”
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate, Only love dispels hate. This is the law Ancient and inexhaustible, you to shall pass away knowing this.
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
The trouble is, you think you have time.
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
Wise men do not desire to do anything; wise men do not desire to abandon action either.
Avoid him who tries to talk sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
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.
Know Me to be the eternal seed of all creatures. I am the intelligence of the intelligent, and the brilliance of the brilliant.
One should save money against hard times, save his wife against spending or sacrificing the money and one should save self at the cost of the wife and the riches.
The goddess of wealth comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
There is neither unwisdom nor ignorance; neither bondage, nor liberation. There is but one pure consciousness.
True love is born from understanding.
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine
People with opinions just go around bothering one another.
The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
This world-appearance is a confusion, even as the blueness of the sky is an optical illusion. I think it is better not to let the mind dwell on it, but to ignore it.
