Gautama Buddha Quotes About Real Buddhist
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
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Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
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If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?
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To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
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Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else
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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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To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
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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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There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
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Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.
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How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
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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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If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
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Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
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Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.
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Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.
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It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
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Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.
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With our thoughts we make the world.
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Born out of concern for all beings.
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