Gautama Buddha Quotes
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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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You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.
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There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart.
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It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.
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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
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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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Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.
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I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.
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Hate never ends hate. Only love can.
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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
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An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
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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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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.
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Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.
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As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
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Be a light unto yourself.
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Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.
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If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
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Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.
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Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.
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Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.
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Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.
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What you think you become.
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With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.