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- Akkosa Sutta: Insult
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Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
- Dr. Seuss
Flowers fall with our attachment, and weeds spring up with our aversion.
- Dogen Zenji, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
- Agatha Christie
Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential.
- Yamakavagga: Pairs
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- E. M. Forster
The tremendous danger is that this belief – that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings – becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we also stay closed to our own wellspring of compassion.
- Joseph Goldstein, A Heart Full Of Peace
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
- Aristotle
Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.
- Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Discourse on Loving-kindness
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon
Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don’t serve them tea.
- Shunryu Suzuki, quoted by David Chadwick, Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuk
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Better it is to live one day wise and meditative than to live a hundred years foolish and uncontrolled.
- Sahassavagga: The Thousands
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
- Alexis Carrel
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When pure gold is covered by dirt it is not obvious that it is gold, even though this dirt is temporary. But once it is removed we realize that the gold is gold. In the same way, when our confusion is purified, the wisdom which is our basic wakefulness is made manifest.
- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Repeating the Words of the Buddha
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
- Flip Wilson
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
- Buddhavagga: The Buddha
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- George Burns
Better it is to live one day virtuous and meditative than to live a hundred years immoral and uncontrolled.
- Sahassavagga: The Thousands