Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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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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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
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Attachment leads to suffering.
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Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.
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Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.
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Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.
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Your actions are your only true belongings.
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If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner.
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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
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The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.
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Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.
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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views.
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Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates.
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Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
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He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.
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The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.
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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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In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
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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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When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is.
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You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.
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Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
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Know what you do not know.