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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment
wisely and earnestly.
Gautama Buddha
tags: inspirational
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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your
love and affection
Gautama Buddha
tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom
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In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?
Gautama Buddha
tags: eastern-philosophy, inspirational
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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
tags: inspirational
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There is nothing more dreadful than the 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.
Gautama Buddha
tags: inspirational
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is
more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and
that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as
anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Gautama Buddha
tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on
our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with
an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of
the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good
thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.
Gautama Buddha
tags: inspirational
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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We
ourselves must walk the path.
Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha
tags: alone, buddha, buddhism, destiny, fate, future, lone, past, path, present, save, sayi
ng, walk
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Gautama Buddha
tags: accountability, inner-peace, peace, self-acceptance, spiritual
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You only lose what you cling to.
Gautama Buddha
tags: buddhism, insightful
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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the
Truth.
Gautama Buddha
tags: truth
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not
believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your
religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of
your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they
have been handed down for many generations. But after observation
and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and
live up to it.
Gautama Buddha
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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.
Gautama Buddha
tags: anger-management, buddha
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Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Gautama Buddha
tags: beliefs, doubt, faith
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot 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, let us all be thankful.
Gautama Buddha
tags: inspirational
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Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters
most.
Gautama Buddha
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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart
and soul to it
Gautama Buddha
tags: mission, purpose, work
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There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
Gautama Buddha
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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.
Gautama Buddha
tags: buddhist, inspirational
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If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
Gautama Buddha
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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is
peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the
Buddha
tags: buddha, buddhism, wisdom
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You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your
anger.
Gautama Buddha
tags: wisdom
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Gautama Buddha
tags: compassion, self-respect
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Now, Kalamas, dont go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by
scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by
agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought,
This contemplative is our teacher. When you know for yourselves
that, These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these
qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted &
carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness then you should enter &
remain in them.

[Kalama Sutta, AN 3.65]

Gautama Buddha
tags: buddhism, doubt, kalama-sutta, kalamas, sutta
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It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so
many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they
will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself
remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.

[Sutra of 42 Sections]
Gautama Buddha
tags: buddhism, sutra, sutras
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Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
Gautama Buddha
tags: misattributed
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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.
Gautama Buddha
tags: brahma, buddhism, conquest, deva, gandhabba, mara, self-understanding
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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.
Gautama Buddha
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Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering,
that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
Gautama Buddha
tags: buddhism
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These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, &
hard to obtain in the world:
Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the
world.

Beauty is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.

Happiness is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the

world.

Status is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.

...Now, I tell you, these... things are not to be obtained by reason of

prayers or wishes. If they were to be obtained by reason of prayers or
wishes, who here would lack them? It's not fitting for the disciple of
the noble ones who desires long life to pray for it or to delight in doing
so. Instead, the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life should
follow the path of practice leading to long life. In so doing, he will
attain long life...

[Ittha Sutta, AN 5.43]

Gautama Buddha
tags: beauty, buddhism, happiness, ittha-sutta, long-life, pleasant, status, sutta, wishes
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