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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
~ Buddha

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

- Panditavagga: The Wise

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

- Subhasita Sutta: Well-Spoken

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

- Dandavagga: Violence

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Your up and down emotions are like clouds in the sky; beyond them, the real, basic human nature is clear and pure.

- Lama Yeshe, ecoming Your Own Therapist: An Introduction to the Buddhist Way of Thought

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Ditched Windows in favor of Linux.

We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.

- Samyutta Nikaya

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

The most basic condition for happiness is freedom. Here we do not mean political freedom, but freedom from the mental formations of anger, despair, jealousy, and delusion... As long as these poisons are still in our heart, happiness cannot be possible.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, Anger: Buddhist Wisdom

Let a man guard himself against irritability in speech; let him be controlled in speech. Abandoning verbal misconduct, let him practice good conduct in speech.

- Kodhavagga: Anger

However much fighting there is in the world, however much darkness there is, we must be able to serve as small lamps in that darkness.

- 17th Karmapa