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“The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“Anger is the punishment we give ourselves for someone else's mistake.”
― Gautama Buddha

“The darkest night is ignorance.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those that a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.”
― Gautama Buddha

“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
― Buddha

“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.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
― Gautama Buddha

“The less you have, the less you have to worry about.”
― Buddha

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
― Buddha

“All beings tremble before violence.
All fear death.
All love life.

See yourself in others.
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?”
― Siddhartha Gautama, The Dhammapada

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.”
― Buddha

“The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.”
― Gautama Buddha

“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.”
― Buddha

“Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.”
― Gautama Buddha, Dhammapada

“Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.”
― Buddha

“It’s your road…and yours alone… Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. No matter what path you choose, really walk it.”
― Buddha

“To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible -- we must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
― gautama buddha

“In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.”
― Siddhartha Gautama

“The moment you see how important it is to love yourself, you will stop making others suffer.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Patience is the highest asceticism.”
― Buddha

“Sensual craving gives rise to grief;
Sensual craving gives rise to fear.
For someone released from sensual craving
There is no grief;
And from where would be fear?”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.

"Look how he abused me and beat me,
How he threw me down and robbed me."
Live with such thoughts and you live in hate.

"Look how he abused me and beat me,
How he threw me down and robbed me."
Abandon such thoughts and live in love.

In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.”
― Gautama Buddha

“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.”
― Buddha

“Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Happiness never decreases by being shared”
― Buddha

“Buddha said, “Forgive? But I am not the same man to whom you did it. The Ganges goes on flowing, it is never the same Ganges again. Every man is a river. The man you spit upon is no longer here. I look just like him, but I am not the same, much has happened in these twenty-four hours! The river has flowed so much. So I cannot forgive you because I have no grudge against you.”

“And you also are new. I can see you are not the same man who came yesterday because that man was angry and he spit, whereas you are bowing at my feet, touching my feet. How can you be the same man? You are not the same man, so let us forget about it. Those two people, the man who spit and the man on whom he spit, both are no more. Come closer. Let us talk of something else.”
― Gautama Buddha

“What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself”
― Buddha

“Bhikkhus, possessing four qualities, the foolish, incompetent, bad person maintains himself in a maimed and injured condition; he is blameworthy and subject to reproach by the wise; and he generates much demerit. What four? (1) Without investigating and scrutinizing, he speaks praise of one who deserves dispraise. (2) Without investigating and scrutinizing, he speaks dispraise of one who deserves praise. (3) Without investigating and scrutinizing, he believes a matter that merits suspicion. (4) Without investigating and scrutinizing, he is suspicious about a matter that merits belief. Possessing these four qualities, the foolish, incompetent, bad person maintains himself in a maimed and injured condition; he is blameworthy and subject to reproach by the wise; and he generates much demerit.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.”
― Gautama Buddha