Buddha

“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”

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

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”

“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.”

“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”

“When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.”

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

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

“With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.”

“Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.”

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

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

“What we think, we become.”

“Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.”

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“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 only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”