What is the difference between “I like you” and “I love you”? Beautifully answered by Buddha. Buddha’s answer was so simple. When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.
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Buddha quotes
A young monk fell in love with a girl and Buddha asked him, “How much do you love her?” The young monk replied, “I would turn into a stone bridge and endure 500 years of wind, and endure 500 years of sunlight and 500 years of rain, and all I
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
“A man once told the Buddha, ‘I want happiness’. The Buddha said remove the ‘I’ that’s ego, now remove the ‘want’ that’s desire, now all you are left with is, Happiness.”