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A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.
Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.
From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.
When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.
Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.
Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena
I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.
Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.
Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.
Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test
My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.
A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.