Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.
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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
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Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
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Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.
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Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.
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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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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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All fear violence, all are afraid of death.
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Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
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Winter always turns into Spring.
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My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation.
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Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.
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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
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It is better to travel well then arrive.
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When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
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Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.
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One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
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Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.
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Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.