Watch Your Thoughts
1. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
2. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
3. ‘He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,’–in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease.
4. ‘He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,’–in those who do not harbour such thoughts hatred will cease.
Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 10: The Dhammapada and Sutta Nipata,
by Max Müller and Max Fausböll, [1881], at:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1003.htm
Comment: I’ve seen quotes based on the above ending with a sentence like “With our thoughts we shape the world,” maybe “our world,” is a better fit. Though I can’t find anywhere anyone translated what the Buddha said and came up with a sentence like that. Here is a thoughtful commentary on the versus https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/we-are-shaped-by-our-thoughts-we-become-what-we-think/ To your happiness!