Buddhism Quotes - Page 2

• If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Yoga, Science

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• Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

  Herbie Hancock

  Support, Vision, One Thing

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• Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Death

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• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Secret, May

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• If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Inspirational, Buddhist

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.80, Random House

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• When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Siddhartha

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• If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Pure Happiness

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• The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Helping Others, Essence

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• Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Peace, Giving Up

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Buddhist, Attitude

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• I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Thinking, Oysters

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Peace, Buddhist

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• When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.

  Richard Gere

  Karma, Strong, Soulmate

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• Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving on this planet, those are powerful areas to have kept themselves free from the encroachment of the industrial societies of our earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Humanity, Earth

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• All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

  Barbara Walters

  Believe, Heaven, Literature

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• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

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• When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

  Ajahn Chah

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  Uma Thurman

  Thinking, Who I Am, World

  Interview with Laura Yorke, Reader's Digest, July 2006.

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• Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Hatred, Siddhartha

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• The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

  Atisa

  Buddhist, Effort, Results

  "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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• You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Past, Mind

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