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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Buddhist

"Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'"

Past Night Buddhist
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Buddhist

"All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"

Hurt Buddhist Love Life
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Buddhist

"Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom."

Buddhist Sorrow Deeds
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Buddhist

"Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings."

Buddhism Buddhist Solitude
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Buddhist

"If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated."

Men Animal Buddhist
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Buddhist

"If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great."

Men Wise Buddhist
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Buddhist

"By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should."

Wise Buddhist Forgiving
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Buddhist

"Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears."

Dream Horse Buddhist
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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
Buddhist

"......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict."

Interesting Communication Buddhist
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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
Buddhist

"We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this better men - simply better - we will be satisfied. It matters to the individual what church he belongs to. If that individual thinks and believes that this is the only way to God for her or him, this is the way God comes into their life - his life. If he does not know any other way and if he has no doubt so that he does not need to search then this is his way to salvation."

Men Believe Buddhist
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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
Buddhist

"By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist"

Mean Creativity Buddhist
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Buddhist

"The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world."

Spiritual Motivational Buddhist
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Buddhist

"We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored."

Believe War Buddhist
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Buddhist

"Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend on others and others depend on us, our outlook will change. We’ll begin to see 'others' not as somehow distant from us, but as people we are in touch with, people close to us; we will no longer feel indifferent to them."

Change Buddhism Buddhist
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