Buddha

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.