Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
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We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
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Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.
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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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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.
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Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.
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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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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
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The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
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Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
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Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
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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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His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
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When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
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Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.
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Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
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Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
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When you realize how perfect or at least better than it could be everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
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By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.