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| Quotes by the Buddha |
| Submitted by Melissa Pineiro, North Brunswick Township High School |
- Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at
least we didn’t die; so, le us all be thankful.
- What we think, we become.
- Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
- Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
- Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- 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.
- Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
- Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
- There is nothing more dreadful than a habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that
irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
- There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity about it.
- Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
- If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance.
- A jug fills drop by drop.
- You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
- He is able who thinks he is able.
- Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
- All that we are is a the result of what we have thought.
- A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
- Let yourself and life will be easier.
- To keep the body in good health is a duty: otherwise the mind is not strong and clear.
- Three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon and the truth.
- Our deeds, good or evil, follow us like shadows.
- What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.
- Learn from the past, be prepared for the future, live in the present.
- To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
- It’s a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
- Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
- To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such a teaching.
- There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.
- Attachment is the source of all suffering.
- 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 you are freed.
- Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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