Buddha
Buddha
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, was an asceticand sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE...
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
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All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase:long life, beauty,happiness, strength.
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust