What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice,
more drunkards than thirst,
and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
- The Buddha
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
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.
- The Buddha
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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.
- The Buddha
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
When someone has a strong intuitive connection,
Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma,
some past connection.
- Richard Gere
Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
- The Buddha
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
There has to be evil so that
good can prove its purity above it.
- The Buddha
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
He who experiences the unity of life
sees his own Self in all beings,
and all beings in his own Self,
and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
- The Buddha
The ultimate authority must always rest
with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked
than it is loved by the good.
- The Buddha
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
- The Buddha
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
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.
- The Buddha
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
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 are you freed.
- The Buddha
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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