Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Live joyfully, without desire.
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If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.
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It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.
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Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others.
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Learn to ne happy with what you have.
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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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Believe there is good in the world.
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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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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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Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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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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Be greatly aware of the present.
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He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.
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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
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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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Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
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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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The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.
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Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.
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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
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Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.