Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
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That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.
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To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.
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Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
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Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
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Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
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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 good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.
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Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.
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And more importantly - what we have chosen to do.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
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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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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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Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
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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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Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.
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Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.
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Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
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If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.
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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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For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.