The Dhammapada Famous Quotes
"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."
"Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being."
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
One's own self conquered is better than all other people.
Do not speak harshly to any one those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blows will touch thee.
"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."
"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone."
The Dhammapada Quotations
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
Dorothy Parker
"Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings."
Dave Barry
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
Maxim Gorky
"What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around."
Georges Bernanos
"Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets."
Simone Weil
"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."
Aesop
Our children change uswhether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The so-called method of co-education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
Pope Pius XI