Gautama Buddha Quotes

• Rely on the teaching, not on the person;
  Rely on the meaning, not on the words;
  Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional;
  Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.

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  Teaching, Mind, Ordinary

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• Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful

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  Resistance, Painful, Resistance To Change

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• Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

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  Strong, Determination, Mind

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• One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world

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  One Day, World, Moments

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• Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

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  Powerful, Meditation, Mind

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• If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

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  Truth, Buddhism, Helping Others

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• Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger

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  Heart, Intelligent, Mind

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• The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

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  Past, Gone, Moments

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• The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

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  Happiness, Hate, Heart

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• Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

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  Buddhist, Stories, Deep Meaning

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• Your greatest weapon is your enemy's mind

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  Mind, Enemy, Weapons

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• All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

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  Reality, Facing Reality, Unhappiness

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• The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation.

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  Mind, Perceive, Limitation

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• In compassion lies the world's true strength.

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  Peace, Strong, Lying

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• Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

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  Happy, Short Life, Appreciate

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• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

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  Positive, Happiness, Courage

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• Attachment is the source of all suffering.

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  Grieving, Attachment, Suffering

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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 and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, 'What are they to me?' A jug fills drop by drop.

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  Flower, Heart, Men

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• The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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  Men, Reflection, Glasses

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• Suffering is an illusion.

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  Suffering, Illusion

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• Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.

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  Religious, Looks, Done

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• Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

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  Death, Buddhist, Elephants

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

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  Letting Go, Suffering, Hardest

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• When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

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  Flower, Water, Pluck

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• If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

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  Lying, People, Deeds

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