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Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama or the Buddha, was a spiritual leader and the founder of Buddhism. Born in the 6th century BC in the region of Lumbini, Nepal, he renounced his princely life to seek enlightenment. His teachings, emphasizing the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, have profoundly influenced the lives of millions around the world.

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Famous Gautama Buddha Quotes

“If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Past

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“Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.”

World Long Lasts Happiness Joy Time Change This World Luxury Enjoyed Passing Away

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“It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.”

World Mind Long Path Notion Fathom

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“Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.”

Persons Shadow Deeds

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“The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

“Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.”

Responsibility Height Assistance

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“Man should make himself a lot of good karma.”

Men Should Karma Good Karma

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“Not even death can wipe out our good deeds”

Deeds Karma Good Deeds Wipe

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“To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.”

Giving Helping Selfish Karma Greedy Unwilling Starvation Needy Being Selfish

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“There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.”

Earth Fear Behinds Clear Fire Quiet Anger Patient Reactions Destructive Pool Pillars

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“That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.”

Life Needs Gone Down And Brahma Goeth

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“Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.”

Fall Goodness Filled Accumulation Disregard Jars Raindrops

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“O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.”

Want Advice Rely Seekers

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“Concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it.”

Use Peace Remove Hook Vipers

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“When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.”

Peace Sleep Gone Ease Snakes Vipers

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“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.”

Men Love Overcoming

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“He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.”

Wells Healing Wind Drink Mountain Senses Controlled Moderates Food And Drink Rocky Mountain

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“(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.”

India Responsible East Buddhist Asia East Asia

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“A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.”

Persons Wise Hatred Patient Buddhist

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“An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.”

Doe Evil Fire Fool Deeds Buddhist Covered Milk Ashes

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“Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.”

Evil Watches Path Draws Buddhist Elephants Mud

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“Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.”

People Persons Doe Wise Worst Buddhist Virtuous Associates Wise Person

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“Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.”

Joy Pleasure Buddhist Vain Vigilant

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“Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.”

Able Realizing Deals Sorrow Deeds Buddhist

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“He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.”

Suffering Walks Pleasure Company Enemy Wise Fool Meetings Painful Buddhist Kinfolk

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“If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.”

Ifs Pain Passion Strong Grows Doubt Stronger Buddhist Yearning Thirst Detrimental Defilement

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“Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.”

Mind Wells Difficult Wise Achieve Buddhist Perceive Controlled Elusive Peace And Happiness

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“Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.”

Kind Life Is Difficult Buddhist

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“Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.”

Beautiful Wise Flower Wise Words Buddhist Colour Speakers Scent Beautiful Flower

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“Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.”

Hate Buddhist Hostile

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“One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.”

Way Persons Doe Capable Weak Buddhist Lazy Idle Sloth True Knowledge

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“The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.”

Mind Firsts Real Spirit Teacher Four Teaching Personality Pure Perception Essence Thirds Buddhist Rely Interpretation Fourth Superficial Reliance Judgmental Real Wisdom

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“Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.”

Wise Overcoming Buddhist Islands Flood Restraint Constructs Vigilance

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“Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.”

Mind Enemy Oneself Harm Buddhist Hateful Misguided

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“When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.”

Looks Suffering Lost Mountain Mass Buddhist Height Look Up Climbs Serene Vigilance

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“You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.”

Way Shows Effort Buddhist Thoughtful Bondage Defilement

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“Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.”

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“Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.”

Thinking Men Mind Wonder Virtue Failing Perceive Inverted

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“All composite things decay. Strive diligently.”

Strive Decay Composites

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“Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.”

Believe Wells Reason Accepting Teacher Authority Mere Guides Well Being Priests Investigation Accord Thorough

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“Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.”

Way Treats Golden Rule Hurtful

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“A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.”

May Action Turns Fire Fool Reactions Milk Ashes Concealed Sour Wrong Actions

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“The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.”

Men World Needs Facts Faces Desire Suffering Passion Struggle Birth Involved Hatred Beloved Sickness Loved Ones Sickness And Death

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“He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.”

Thinking Feels Doe Loss Mines Worried

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“Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.”

Pain And Love Yesterday Hope And Love

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“Don't just do something, be there.”

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“Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.”

Sound Quality Riches Contentedness

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“Want what you have and you will always get what you want.”

Want What You Want

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“He who is kind to animals heaven will protect.”

Kind Heaven Animal Protect

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About the Author

Born: 567 BC
Died: 484 BC
Known for: Founding Figure
Quotes: 1183

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