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Founding Figure Inspirational Quotes (838)

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It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
Gautama Buddha
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To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.
Gautama Buddha
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A person creates what they defend against.
Gautama Buddha
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The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.
Gautama Buddha
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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.
Gautama Buddha
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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
Gautama Buddha
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Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.
Gautama Buddha
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The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions
Gautama Buddha
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The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.
Gautama Buddha
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(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.
Gautama Buddha
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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.
Gautama Buddha
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Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
Gautama Buddha
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Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.
Gautama Buddha
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Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
Gautama Buddha
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A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Gautama Buddha
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When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
Gautama Buddha
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However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake Shines in the radiance of the spirit. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work, with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!
Gautama Buddha
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Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
Paul the Apostle
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.
Gautama Buddha
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When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
Gautama Buddha
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The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
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Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.
Gautama Buddha
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All composite things decay. Strive diligently.
Gautama Buddha
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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
Gautama Buddha
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