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We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

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Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them.
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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
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It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life.
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In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
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Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
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Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.
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If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.
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I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.
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Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.
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Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect.
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We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.
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A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
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Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.
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Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling.
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Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
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In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.
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Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.
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