Buddhist Proverb

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

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Right now, it’s like this.

Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman’s construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle – yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

We all die unhealed

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother’s cookbook, and her father’s checkbook.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

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

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

As I reminded my girls, these aren’t problems. These are very high class problems. Because of where Barack and I come from, we just couldn’t sympathize with their… It was like, ‘Girl, you live in the White House. You do not get to complain about this.