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Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear
One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.
Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.
If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy
All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.
God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.
In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.
Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.
Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.
Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.