Gautama Buddha on life
Gautama Buddha100 quotes“All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.”
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A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Success isn’t the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha From a withered tree, a flower blooms.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha True love is born from understanding.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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What is happening within you and how you experience your life is entirely your making – your karma.
SadhguruSadhguru All of the results you are currently experiencing in your life are absolutely perfect for you. This includes your career, personal relationships and financial status.
Jack CanfieldJack Canfield Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it’s okay.
Lady GagaLady Gaga A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt We must all be in love once in our lives.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt