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Buddha Quotes

«Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds»
«Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again»
«Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.»
«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.»
Author: Buddha | About: Action, Evil, Happiness, Pain, Thought | Keywords: Acts, follows, leaves, pure, result, shadow, speaks
«There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.»
«For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.»
«A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.»
«Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.»
«If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.»
«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.»