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“If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

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

“The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”
― Anonymous, The Dhammapada

“If you want the truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.”
― Kabir

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:
not in masses,
nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly —
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
― Kabir

“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
― Kabir

“... What is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
― Kabir

“If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?”
― Kabir

“When at last you are come to the ocean of happiness, do not go back thirsty.”
― Kabir, Songs of Kabir

“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.”
― Buddha

“...But if a mirror ever makes
you sad

you should know
that it does
not know
you.”
― Kabir

“Wherever you are is the entry point”
― Kabir

“the sun is within me and so is the moon”
― Kabir

“Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.”
― Kabir

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”
― Homer

“True love is born from understanding.”
― The Buddha

“To love is to recognize ; to be loved is to be recognized by the other”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

“Buddhist meditation is based on the principle of nonduality. This means that if we are mindfulness, if we are love, we are also ignorance, we are also suffering, and there is no reason to suppress anything at all.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

“The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself.”
― Hanh Nhat Thich, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning