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Life Quotes by Gautama Buddha

109 Life quotes by Gautama Buddha

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If a person does not harm any living being, that person is a true spiritual practitioner. The quotes stress that life is fleeting, like a line drawn on water, and that letting go of fear opens the way to wisdom. They also point to compassion and mindfulness as the core of a meaningful existence.

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Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

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Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest.

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Remember that the only constant in life is change.

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As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

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Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

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All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary

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If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

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One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the…

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Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our…

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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

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

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Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.

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Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the…

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O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

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Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its…

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Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we…

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Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from…

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There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of…

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up…

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That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that…

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“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the…

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In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness…

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Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

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Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is…

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If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from…

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Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent…

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Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood…

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Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness…

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The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail.…

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is…

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For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang;…

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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.

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Life is uncertain; death is certain.

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Our life is a creation of our mind.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

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He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

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Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.

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When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

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Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

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