Gautama Buddha Quotes
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If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.
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As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.
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Hate never ends hate. Only love can.
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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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Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself
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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.
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Consider Others as Yourself.
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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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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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Be greatly aware of the present.
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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 be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.
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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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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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Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
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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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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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It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.
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He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
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Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.
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Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
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It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.
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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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Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.