Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
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Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
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We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
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Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
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May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
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Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.
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The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
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He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
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You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
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Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
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I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.
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There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
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If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.
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Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
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Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
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A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.
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Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.
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All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
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Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect.
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Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.
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One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
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Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.