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Lives Quotes by Gautama Buddha
- As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
- A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory…
- Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
- The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one…
- Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives.
- People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who…
- Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.
- How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool…
- Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
- In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
- Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.
- If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily…
- The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
- Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
- If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.
- Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the…
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- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
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- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius