We are shaped by our thoughts;
by Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
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Sayings by Buddha
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha 
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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He is able who thinks he is able.
- The Buddha
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.
- The Buddha
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
A jug fills drop by drop.
- The Buddha
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
Work out your own salvation.
Do not depend on others.
- The Buddha
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
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.
- The Buddha
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
- The Buddha
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked
than it is loved by the good.
- The Buddha
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
- The Buddha
There has to be evil so that
good can prove its purity above it.
- The Buddha
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
To keep the body in good health is a duty...
otherwise we shall not be able
to keep our mind strong and clear.
- The Buddha
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike.
Each has their suffering.
Some suffer too much, others too little.
- The Buddha
Shaped Sayings
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our Sayings
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise Hay
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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