Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.


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What we think, we become.
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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
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The ocean has only one taste, the taste of salt. Truth has only one taste, the taste of freedom.
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The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
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BUDDHA
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good l...
BUDDHA
All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you f...
BUDDHA
Prefer the afterlife is better than this one. Never let this life is better than next one. - Buddha
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giving the best to others are giving the best to ourselves. The value of life is not based on how lo...
BUDDHA
Give the people --- confidence. Give the people --- delight. Give the people --- hope. Give the peop...
BUDDHA
Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek af...
BUDDHA
Nothing is permanent.
BUDDHA
The good shine from afarLike the snowy Himalayas.The bad don't appearEven when near,Like arrows shot...
BUDDHA
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water un...
BUDDHA
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you mer...
BUDDHA
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And...
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...
BUDDHA
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that ...
BUDDHA
To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
BUDDHA
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it...
BUDDHA
Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenishe...
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And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as ...
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But to take refuge in the Buddha, the Dhammas and the Sangha and to see with real understanding the ...
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Known they are, Subhuti, to the Tathagata through his Buddha-coginition. Seen they are, Subhuti, by ...
BUDDHA
Embrace nothing:
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill yo...
BUDDHA
True Friends like ivy and the wall, both stand together, and together fall.
BUDDHA
Better the man that conquer a thousand thousand men is the one who conquer one, himself.
BUDDHA
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own mi...
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Laugh a lot, and when you're older, all your wrinkles will be in the right places
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If you're respectful by habit,
constantly honoring the worthy,
four things increase:
l...
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