Real Buddhist Quotes

• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Mistake

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• The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worse

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Ill, Can Do

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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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• Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• With our thoughts we make the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.36, Mango Media Inc.

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• To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Teaching, Evil

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• Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.126, Mango Media Inc.

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• There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Passion, Fire

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Regret, Joy

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.62, Mango Media Inc.

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• Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Men

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Buddhist, Distance

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• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mistake, Good Friend

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• You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?

  Gautama Buddha

  Knowing, Passing Away, Dhammapada

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• Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Enemy, Might

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• Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Subjects

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• There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Fire, Evil

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• Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Men

  "The Discourse Collection. Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata". Book by John D. Ireland, www.accesstoinsight.org. 1995.

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• Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Buddhism

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• Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Suffering

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• Born out of concern for all beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Law Of Attraction

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• Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mouths, Martial Arts

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• However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

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• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Struggle, Buddhism

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