Buddhist Quotes - Page 31

• There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

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• Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

  Gautama Buddha

  Doors, Mind, Way

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• Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

  Gautama Buddha

  Littles, Knows

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• One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Humble, Pride

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• Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Clever, Rising, Laziness

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• Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Able, Welcome, Philosopher

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• Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Speech, Turns, Being Generous

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• There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

  Gautama Buddha

  Waiting, Helpful, Truthful

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• Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.

  Gautama Buddha

  Valentines Day, Sweet Love, Flower

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• Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mother, Children, Only Child

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• The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Defeat, Refrain, Harm

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• Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

  Gautama Buddha

  Love Is, Fleeting, Emotion

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• The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Integrity, Men, Self

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• In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, House, Meditation

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• Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

  Gautama Buddha

  Attention, Pay, Immortality

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• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  Gautama Buddha

  Clever, Men, Indulge In

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• Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Indulge In, Joy, Sensual

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• Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

  Gautama Buddha

  Horse, Sleep, Intelligent

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• With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Evil, Mind

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• Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Death, Flower, Sleep

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• Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Flower, Men

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• Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Flower, Men

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• Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lotuses, Jasmine, Kind

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