{"author":"Gautama Buddha","author_id":"Gautama+Buddha","total_quotes":97,"quotes":[{"text":"Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["suffering"],"id":7049,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"Attachment leads to suffering.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["buddhism"],"id":8066,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["buddhism"],"id":9225,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"Purity or impurity depends on oneself,No one can purify another.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["buddha","buddhism","tipitaka"],"id":16337,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"I shall live here in the rains,There in winter,Elsewhere in summer,' muses the fool,Not aware of the nearness of death.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["buddhism","death","dhammapada","wisdom"],"id":20043,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["happiness","outlook","positive"],"id":22860,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["generosity","kindness","love","truth"],"id":30767,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["questions","sagaramati","sutra"],"id":35543,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purification of mind is for the sake of reaching purification of view; purification of view is for the sake of reaching purification by overcoming doubt; purification by overcoming doubt is for the sake of reaching purification by knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not the path; purification by knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not the path is for the sake of reaching purification by knowledge and vision of the way; purification by knowledge and vision of the way is for the sake of reaching purification by knowledge and vision; purification by knowledge and vision is for the sake of reaching final Nibbāna [Nirvana] without clinging. It is for the sake of final Nibbāna without clinging that the holy life is lived under the Blessed One.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["buddhism","path","rathavinīta","sutra"],"id":43273,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"May all that have life be delivered from suffering.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["animals","kindness","life"],"id":45889,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":97,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}