Gautama Buddha - Life Quotes

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Just as with her own life, A mother shields from hurt, Her own son, her only child, Let all-embracing thoughts For all beings be yours.

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If he goes forth from the household life into homelessness, then he will become an Arahant, a fully-enlightened Buddha, one who draws back the veil from the world.

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I spit on my life.
Death in battle would be better for me
than that I, defeated, survive.

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Faith is the best wealth for a man in this world. Righteousness when well practised brings happiness. Truth is the sweetest of flavours. They say the life of one living by wisdom is the best.

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Though a fool spend all his life with wise men, he will know the truth no more than a spoon knows the taste of the soup.

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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Just as the candle won't be shortened, one's happiness never decreases by being shared.

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The seers of old had fully restrained selves, and were austere. Having abandoned the five strands of sensual pleasures, they practiced their own welfare. The brahmans had no cattle, no gold, no wealth. They had study as their wealth and grain. They guarded the holy life as their treasure.
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Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts. A man's life is the direct result of his thoughts... We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.

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And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

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