Gautama Buddha Short Quotes

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Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.

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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

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In a world become blind,
I beat the drum of the Deathless.

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Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

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Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

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Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

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But truly, Ananda, it is nothing strange that human beings should die.

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This is deathless, the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

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In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.

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It cannot happen that a woman may become a Tathāgata, a Sammsambuddha.

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Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.

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Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

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It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.

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Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.

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Well, Lord, is the soul the same as the body, is the soul one thing and the body another?

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They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

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Open are the doors to the Deathless
to those with ears.
Let them show their conviction.

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Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

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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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As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.

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Behold now, Bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

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If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

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Whatever is felt is within suffering.
Soma and Mara An adapation of a translation by C. A. F. Rhys-Davids

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Women, with their two-fingered wisdom [i. e. stupid], have a difficult time [understanding what I teach].

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To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

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When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself

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Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.

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The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of 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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