Gautama Buddha

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

Believe there is good in the world.

Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.

Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

There is no fire like passion_x000D_ _x000D_ No crime like hatred,_x000D_ _x000D_ No sorrow like separation,_x000D_ _x000D_ No sickness like hunger,_x000D_ _x000D_ And no joy like the joy of freedom.

Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.