QUOTATIONS 

FORGIVENESS

If we do not learn to live together as friends

 we will die apart as fools.

                                       -MARTIN LUTHER KING

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Forgiveness does not change the past but

it does enlarge the future.

                                              -PAUL BOESE

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The practice of forgiveness is

 our most important contribution to

the healing of the world.

                             -MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

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Forgiveness is not an emotion, it’s a decision.

                                                -RANDALL WORLEY

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To forgive is to set a prisoner free

and discover that the prisoner was you.

                                                -LEWIS B.SMEDES

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Forgiveness is me giving up

my right to hurt you

for hurting me.

                                                         -ANONYMOUS

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Our friends are those who know

 their own faults well enough

 to forgive us ours.

                                                -MOULTONB FARNHAM

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

                                      -ALEXANDER POPE

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To be wronged is nothing unless

you continue to remember it.

                                                                   -CONFUCIUS

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There is no condition for forgiveness.

                                                                   -PAULTILLICH

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Forgiveness is not an occasion act.

It is a permanent attitude.

                                      -MARTIN LUTHER KING

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QUOTATIONS

ANGER

Anger is only one letter short of danger

                                                                   - UNKNOWN

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For every minute you are angry

You lose sixty seconds of happiness

                                                -Emerson

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There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger

                                                          -UNKNOWN

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Anger is a brief madness

                                                          -HORACE

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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding

                                                -MAHATHMA GANDHI

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

                                      -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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A man is measure by the size of things that anger him.

                             -GEOF GEENLEAF

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When a man is wrong and won’t admit it

He always gets angry.

                                                -THOMAS HALLIBURTON

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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

                                                          -ALFERD ADLER

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Anger is a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.

                                                          -UNKNOWN

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An angry man is not fit to pray

                                                          -YIDDISH PROVERB

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He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.

                                                          -JAPANEE PROVERB

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He is a fool who cannot be anger;

But he is a wise man who will not

                                                                   -SNECA

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THE VINAYA PITAKA

          The Vinaya pitaka is one among the three pitakas (baskets); the other two are Abhidhamma pitaka and Sutta pitaka.  It was very instrumental in the study of the ancient Indian culture during the time of the Buddha. The culture, character and nature of the Indian people during that time can be found in the Vinaya pitaka.  In addition, it can be seen in the Vinaya how the Buddha, when forming Buddhist organization, made sure that there is harmony between the monks of various castes and from different localities.

          For the advancement of an organization it is essential to have rules and practices.  The rule for a Buddhist organization is the Vinaya or monastic code.  Buddha had laid down the rules in this code of conduct.  If we study the majority of the rules we can see that the rules were laid down so as to be free from the criticism and censure of people of that time.  It is true that religious code of conduct was introduced so that people who do not worship Buddhism will begin to worship it, and for those who already worship it to have more respect.

           I understand that 'Vinaya' in the present day serves as an 'ART OF LIVING' for those who aspired to attain spiritual goals.  For me it is a noblest personality development course, in modern days.

One who practices Vinaya pitaka as Buddha asked to practice; automatically he can also achieve proper position and get property in the world to live happily.

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