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It is better to travel well then arrive.

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You create what you defend against.

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Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

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I am always at the beginning.

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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

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Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

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All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.

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The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

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Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.

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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

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You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

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The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

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Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.

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Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?

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Attachment is the source of all suffering.

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If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

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Learn to ne happy with what you have.

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The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

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Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.

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When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.

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