Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Hate never ends hate. Only love can.
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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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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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Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
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...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.
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It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.
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Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
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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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The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.
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Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
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A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down.
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It is better to travel well then arrive.
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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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At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.
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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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Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.
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There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.
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A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.
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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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As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.
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I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to them a variety of dharmas, Each time having this thought: 'How may I cause the beings To contrive to enter the Unexcelled Path and quickly to perfect the Buddha-body?'