Buddha

“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”

“Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.”

“A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.”

“The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.”

“Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.”

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.”

“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”

“Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.”

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.”

“When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.”

“The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.”

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”

“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”