Buddha Quotes part 2

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"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

"The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze."

Buddha Quotes:

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."

"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."

"He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes."

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: 1.) not going all the way; and 2.) not starting."

"Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height."

Buddha Quotes:

"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."

"This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation."

"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease."

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

"There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed."

Buddha Quotes:

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

"Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial."

"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye."

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