Famous quotes by Gautam Buddha

• “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
• “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
• “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
• “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
• “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
• “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
• “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
• “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
• “To understand everything is to forgive everything”
• “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
• “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
• “You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”
• “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
• “When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”
• “However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”
• “A jug fills drop by drop.”
• “The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.”
• “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
• “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
• “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
• “There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
• “The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
• “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
• “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
• “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
• “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
• “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
• “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
• “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
• “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
• “What we think, we become.”
• “To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others”
• “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
• “He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”
• “To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
• “There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
• “Life is suffering.”
• “Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
• “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”

Awesome Quotes...

Awesome Quotes…

(No offence meant to anyone.. J)

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UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.

-Dennis Ritchie

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Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.

—Ralph Johnson

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

-Fred Brooks

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It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it;

It's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

-Steve McConnell

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure,

and the intelligent are full of doubt.

-Bertrand Russell

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If debugging is the process of removing bugs,

Then programming must be the process of putting them in..

-Edsger Dijkstra

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You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic;

You cannot have both at the same time.

–Bertrand Meyer

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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.

-Alan J. Perlis

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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

-Bill Gates

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The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.

The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

-Tom Cargill

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Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs.

The Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots.

So far the Universe is winning.

-Anon

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Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work.

Practice is when something works, but you don't know why it works.

Programmers combine Theory and Practice:

Nothing works and they don't know why.

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The Six Phases of a Project:

· Enthusiasm

· Disillusionment

· Panic

· Search for the Guilty

· Punishment of the Innocent

· Praise for non-participants