Gautama Buddha Quotes
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But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.
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Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.
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Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.
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There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.
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From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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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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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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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
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Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.
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In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.
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All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.
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Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
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To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
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For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.
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Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.
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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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Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
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Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
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Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.