Quotes About Karma

A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.

Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Zivot nam vraca samo ono sto mi drugima dajemo.

my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

I was very rich now, a super myriad trillionaire in Samapatti transcendental graces, because of good humble karma, maybe because I had pitied the dog and forgiven men. But I knew now that I was a bliss heir, and that the final sin, the worst, is righteousness. So I would shut up and just hit the road and go see Japhy.

In fact, driving through Arizona I'd explained a little Buddhism to them, specifically karma, reincarnation, and they all seemed pleased to hear the news. "You mean other chance to come back and try again?" asked the poor little Mexican, who was all bandaged from a fight in Juárez the night before. "That's what they say." "Well goddammit next time I be born I hope I ain't who I am now.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.

Whatever you give, if you give it freely and without conditions it'll come back to you two fold.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

When you give something to a man and expect nothing — do not even expect the man to be grateful — his ingratitude will not tell upon you, because you never expected anything, never thought you had any right to anything in the way of a return. You gave him what he deserved; his own Karma got it for him; your Karma made you the carrier thereof.

If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man. Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be. Karma

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma. Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate. We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

That which the ignorant do with desire for results and gain, let the wise do without any attachment and without any desire for results and gain.

Whatever we see, or feel, or do, whatever action there is anywhere in the universe, while being the effect of past work on the one hand, becomes, on the other, a cause in its turn, and produces its own effect.