Gautama Buddha Quotes
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A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.
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For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.
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To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.
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They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
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Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.
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Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.
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The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.
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You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
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Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.
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Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.
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It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
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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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Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
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Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.
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From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.
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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.
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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
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A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
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Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.
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Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.
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Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.
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What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.