Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.
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The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.
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One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
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Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
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Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.
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Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
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Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.
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Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.
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I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.
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Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.
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Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one.
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The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.
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The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.
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Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.
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The root of suffering is attachment.
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Conquer the angry man by love.
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How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.
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Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
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Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.
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Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.
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O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
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By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.
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By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.