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Suffering Quotes by Gautama Buddha

74 Suffering quotes by Gautama Buddha

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A line drawn on water quickly vanishes, showing how short life feels. The quotes say that wanting things and clinging to them brings pain, and that a restless mind creates more suffering. They also remind us that another’s joy or sorrow can become our own, and that careful attention can calm the mind and ease hurt.

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He who is grateful doesn't suffer.

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Attachment is the source of all suffering.

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The root of suffering is attachment

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I teach about suffering and the way to end it

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Suffering is an illusion.

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What's done to the children is done to society.

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Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

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The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

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

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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

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Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.

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To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

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As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

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May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.

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Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

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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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Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all…

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The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the…

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He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with…

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Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true…

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It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the…

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'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself,…

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It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is…

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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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Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact…

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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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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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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind,…

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Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do…

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Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the…

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Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union…

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May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to…

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Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again…

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Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up…

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(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled…

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So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,…

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A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead…

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Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.

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Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

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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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