Good Buddhist Quotes

• Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

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  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist   Believe   Buddhism  

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• Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.

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  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Christian   Jesus   Buddhist  

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• I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy—it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

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  Maya Angelou

  Christian   Mother   Buddhist  

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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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  Gautama Buddha

  Positive   Dog   Buddhist  

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• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

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  Gautama Buddha

  Positive   Inspiring   Wise  

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• As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.

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  Martha Beck

  Buddhist   Joy   Way  

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.18, Harmony

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• At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.

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  Anne Carson

  Buddhist   Attitude   Thinking  

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• I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.

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  Maya Angelou

  Christian   Mother   Buddhist  

  Interview with George Plimpton (Summer 1990), as published in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Ninth Series" edited by George Plimpton, July 1, 1992.

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• The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

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  Noah Levine

  Wise   Spiritual   Buddhist  

  Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.2, Harper Collins

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