"A jug fills drop by drop."
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Gautama Buddha quotes (page 22 of 59)
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"To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart."
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"To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering."
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"Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened."
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"Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness."
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"One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud."
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"The greatest victory is the one over oneself."
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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."
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"We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience."
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"We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything."
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"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others."
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"Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow."
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"Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat."
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"Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own."
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"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."
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"For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear."
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"To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness."
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"He who is kind to animals heaven will protect."
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"A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool."
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"I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir."
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