A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.


Bodhidharma

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In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
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In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
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You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
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The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.
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Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.
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Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
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What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
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[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for su...
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their h...
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their h...
SAADI
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...
HORACE
Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.
BIBLE
Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha: someone who has completely purified his or ...
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the ma...
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man...
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the ma...
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the ma...
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Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrus...
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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is fr...
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Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is ...
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
THOMAS CARLYLE
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of o...
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Buddha is in our hearts, Buddha is in our mouths, Buddha is in our daily lives.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
JIM MORRISON
A friend is someone who leaves you with all your freedom intact
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Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi...
FRANZ SCHUBERT
All we see is the 2% of the bad people. Seeing someone who does something good is refreshing,
WAYNE LEWIS
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
JULES RENARD
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.
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A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
BOB DYLAN
There is Buddha for those who don't know what he is, really. There is no Buddha for those who know w...
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...
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The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which...
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Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and so...
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Is there any difference between a happy and a lucky man? A happy is someone who finds an oasis with ...
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Total freedom from your past; both the good and the bad things is the foundation for a successful li...
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Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
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A well constructed plot should, therefore, be single in its issue, rather than double as some mainta...
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You can love the good in us and hate the bad but the bad is in us too. Without it we wouldn't be us.
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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, th...
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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She is someone who has multiple weapons offensively. She came back in and has a key block, gets a st...
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It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedo...
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Of what good, is a truth that may harm someone and does no good to anyone?Of what bad, is a lie that...
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Of what good, is a truth that may harm someone and does no good to anyone? Of what bad, is a lie tha...
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Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.
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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works...
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A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
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A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
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A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
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In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he w...
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
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Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most da...
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If grief or anger arises,Let there be grief or anger.This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moo...
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A person who finds nothing good in this world has reached to the drastic level of awakening.
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If grief or anger arises,
Let there be grief or anger.
This is the Buddha in all forms,
...
JACK KORNFIELD
A vigorous mind shut out from outer stimuli finds in this circumstance the time to develop leisurely...
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At the heart of the best documentaries, there is a journey of inquiry - someone who travels out into...
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Every person has his secret; in reverie, unbeknown to others, he finds peace, freedom, sorrow and lo...
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One who talks sweet does not have an enemy and is blessed with plentiful of wealth and good fortune.
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There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to...
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A Buddhist story is that a man came shouting angrily at Buddha, who remained unaffected by him. When...
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The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.
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Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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They're not kinder and gentler in the handling of prisoners; they think a bad guy is a bad guy, ... ...
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his pla...
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
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A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.
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Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile,And finds it in your presence that life is worth ...
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There is bad in good and there is no good in bad.
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Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their goo...
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What is good is what feels good, and what is bad is what feels bad.
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Only Evil in the world is the one inside your mind.
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A human heart is like a house: Every time you act evilly, a brick is removed, until it crumbles down...
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People don't do things for you or against you, they do things for themselves - it's fortune, good or...
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What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves c...
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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA
Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...
ALBERT CAMUS
A beautiful person is he who finds beauty in wherever he goes and in whatever he sees.
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If someone talks bad about us, we feel bad. If someone talks good about us we feel good. The questio...
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Somewhere something is good for somebody as well as bad for someone else.
VIKRANT PARSAI
A Friend is someone who will help you move; A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body....
UNKNOWN
How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comfortin...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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All phenomena are empty.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seek...
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Words are illusions.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is i...
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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed ...
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Every suffering is a seed, because suffering impels us to seek wisdom.
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Your mind is nirvana.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living t...
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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are...
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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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