#consequences

31 quotes

“Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.”

— Solomon

#karma #justice #consequences

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves.”

— Confucius

#karma #revenge #consequences

“The arrow that has left the bow never returns.”

— Omar Khayyam

#karma #consequences #irreversibility

“The arrow once loosed from the bow does not return; so a word, once spoken, does not come back.”

— Saadi Shirazi

#karma #words #consequences

“Not in the sky, nor in mid-ocean, nor in a mountain cave, is there a spot in the whole world where one may escape from the fruit of an evil action.”

— Gautama Buddha

#karma #accountability #consequences

“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not even in the clefts of the mountains is there a spot where a man may be freed from an evil deed.”

— Gautama Buddha

#karma #accountability #buddhism

“He who digs a pit shall fall into it, and he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.”

— King Solomon

#karma #consequences #justice

“The man who does ill must suffer ill.”

— Aeschylus

#karma #justice #suffering

“He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.”

— King Solomon

#karma #consequences #wisdom

“He who digs a pit for others falls in himself.”

— Unknown

#karma #trap #consequences

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#anger #consequences #wisdom

“If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; if well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#karma #joy #consequences

“Not in the sky, nor in mid-ocean, nor in a mountain cave, is found that place on earth where abiding one may escape from the consequences of one's evil deed.”

— Unknown

#karma #consequences #escape

“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#karma #consequences #proverb

“The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”

— Sextus Empiricus

#karma #justice #patience

“The act itself is its own reward, and the punishment of the act is the act itself.”

— Seneca

#karma #stoicism #consequences

“Heaven's net is wide; coarse are the meshes, yet nothing slips through.”

— Lao Tzu

#karma #justice #Taoism

“The deed cannot be undone; what is done is never lost, but comes back to find the doer.”

— Gautama Buddha

#karma #actions #consequences

“Harm watch, harm catch.”

— Unknown

#karma #proverb #harm

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

— Gautama Buddha

#peace #anger #consequences

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #anger #consequences

“An evil deed does not turn to cream right away, but like fire covered with ashes, it follows the fool, smoldering.”

— Gautama Buddha

#karma #patience #consequences

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves”

— Confucius

#karma #revenge #consequences

“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not by entering the clefts of mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where one may be free from the consequences of an evil deed.”

— Unknown

#karma #consequences #accountability

“The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.”

— Hesiod

#karma #evil #consequences

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

— William Shakespeare

#karma #legacy #good

“As she has done, do unto her; for she hath been proud against the Lord.”

— Jeremiah

#karma #justice #reciprocity

“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”