Buddhism Quotes
1466 Buddhism quotes by 146 unique authors
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Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.
— Frederick Lenz
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Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.
— Frederick Lenz
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If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its…
— Frederick Lenz
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Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.
— Frederick Lenz
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Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they…
— Frederick Lenz
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We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.
— Frederick Lenz
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The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they…
— Frederick Lenz
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You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they…
— Frederick Lenz
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There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond…
— Frederick Lenz
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You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You…
— Frederick Lenz
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Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each…
— Frederick Lenz
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Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from…
— Frederick Lenz
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You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.
— Frederick Lenz
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You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.
— Frederick Lenz
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As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who…
— Frederick Lenz
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You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.
— Frederick Lenz
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There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.
— Frederick Lenz
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Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you…
— Frederick Lenz
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The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to…
— Frederick Lenz
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In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.
— Frederick Lenz
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If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you…
— Frederick Lenz
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There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.
— Frederick Lenz
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You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.
— Frederick Lenz
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