Gautama Buddha Quotes
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If you do not follow the right path, you will be lost.
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From a withered tree, a flower blooms.
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If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.
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And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.
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Your actions are your only true belongings.
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Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
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Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.
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Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.
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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views.
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The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path undeclared before. He is the knower of the path, the discoverer of the path, the one skilled in the path. And his disciplines now dwell following that path and become possessed of it afterwards.
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Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
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So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
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There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little.
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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
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A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
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One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.
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Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
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The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.
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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.
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Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.
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The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.