As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
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Siddhartha
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Ancient monk, living from donations.
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
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The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
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When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing.
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Life is suffering.
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Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.
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He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest.
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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
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One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.
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A disciplined mind brings happiness.
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
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Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.
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Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.
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What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.
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Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.
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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
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Conquer anger through gentleness, unkindness through kindness, greed through generosity, and falsehood by truth.
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May all beings have happy minds.
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Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.
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