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There are currently 10 verified quotes available.

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What are the primary themes found in Buddha's work?

The quotes by Buddha primarily explore concepts related to: Inner Discipline as the Path to True Happiness and Freedom

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Buddha Quotes And Quote Meaning

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Best Buddha Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

"Long is the night to those who cannot sleep; long is the road to the weary. Long is the cycle of birth and death to those who do not know the Dhamma."

"Remember that this body will soon lie in the earth without life, without value, useless as a rotten log."

"Be your own master, guide, and protector. Be your own refuge. Train your mind, as merchants train their noble horses"

"It is easy to do things that are bad and unbeneficial to oneself, but it is extremely difficult, indeed, to do things that are beneficial and good."

"One who conquers oneself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield."

"A pot is filled by drops of water."

"Who have not acquired wealth in their youth, pine away, like old herons in a lake without fish."

"If, hoping to be happy, you do not strike at others who are also seeking happiness, you will be happy here and hereafter."

“If one speaks or acts with pure intentions, happiness will follow, like a shadow that never leaves one’s side.”

Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth

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True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

100% of employees are people. 100% of customer are people. 100% of investor are people. if you don't understand people, you don't understand business

When we focus on the competition, we become reactive. When we focus on improving ourselves, we become innovative.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

Trade your expectations for appreciation and your whole world changes in an instant.

We know what we should and shouldn't put in our mouths, but in those times that pull on our souls, we revert to what's emotionally comfortable.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

"Remember that this body will soon lie in the earth without life, without value, useless as a rotten log."

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”