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Misattributed quotes — Gautama Buddha

563 BC–544 BC India

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8 quotes

There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

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To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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

Misattributed As rendered by T. Byrom (1993)

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection

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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another, it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

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Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, drew a circle with a piece of red chalk and said: "When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle."

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gautama Buddha (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.