Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
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Look within, thou art the Buddha.
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There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?
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Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
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Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.
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Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.
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See the truth, and you will see me.
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One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.
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He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
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Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.
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For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
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Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
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Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.
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Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
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Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.
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If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.
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The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.
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Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.
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One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
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To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
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Suffering is an illusion.
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He who slings mud loses ground.
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One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
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Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.