Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Pain is the outcome of sin.
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Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others.
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
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Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
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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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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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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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All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH.
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It is better to travel well then arrive.
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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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We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.
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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 the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
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Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.
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When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause.
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It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.
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I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.
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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
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Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.
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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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If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.
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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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If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.