"Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another."
-- Gautama Buddha"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease."
-- Gautama Buddha"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."
-- Gautama Buddha"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."
-- Gautama Buddha"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."
-- Gautama Buddha"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."
-- Gautama Buddha"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
-- Gautama Buddha"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."
-- Gautama Buddha"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
-- Gautama Buddha"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others."
-- Gautama Buddha"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."
-- Gautama Buddha"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?"
-- Gautama Buddha"There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path."
-- Gautama Buddha"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
-- Gautama Buddha"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."
-- Gautama Buddha"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
-- Gautama Buddha"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."
-- Gautama Buddha"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
-- Gautama Buddha"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
-- Gautama Buddha"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
-- Gautama Buddha"The root of suffering is attachment."
-- Gautama Buddha"One idea that is true will kill a thousand that are false."
-- Swami Vivekananda"To be selfish is to be a beast, to be unselfish is to be a man, and to be selfless is to be God."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battlefield than to live a life of defeat."
-- Swami Vivekananda