Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Suffering is an illusion.
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If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.
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By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
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Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
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One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.
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I am always at the beginning.
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War ends only when people love each other.
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I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.
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For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.
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The fiercest fire is hatred.
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Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.
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He is able who think he is able.
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The trouble is you think you have time.
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If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
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Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
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The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.
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All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher.
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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
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Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
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Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.
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It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.
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If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
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The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.
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If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.