"Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another."
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"She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair."
β Buddha
"One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world."
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"Live every act fully, as if it were your last."
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"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."
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"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."
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"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
β Buddha
"Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think."
β Buddha
"If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind."
β Buddha
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
β Buddha
"Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes."
β Buddha
"Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker."
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"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."
β Buddha
"Meditate⦠do not delay, lest you later regret it."
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"Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded."
β Buddha
"You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way."
β Buddha
"If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone."
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"ven as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame."
β Buddha
"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves."
β Buddha
"Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth."
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"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."
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"The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest."
β Buddha
"The root of suffering is attachment."
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"One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond."
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"If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?"
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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."
β Buddha
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
β Buddha
"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."
β Buddha
"Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self."
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
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