“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” ― Gautama Buddha
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.” ― Gautama Buddha
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” ― Gautama Buddha
“You only lose what you cling to.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Three things cannot hide for long: The Moon, the Sun and the Truth.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Doubt everything. Find your own light.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it” ― Gautama Buddha
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” ― Gautama Buddha
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.” ― Gautama Buddha
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.” ― Gautama Buddha
“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” ― Gautama Buddha
“It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way. ― Gautama Buddha
“Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself.” – Gautama Buddha
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”― Gautama Buddha
“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything 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.” ― Gautama Buddha
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.” ― Gautama Buddha
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading” ― Gautama Buddha
“All paths lead away from the truth. Truth is already here, so where are you going.” – Gautama Buddha
“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine” ― Gautama Buddha
“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.” ― Gautama Buddha
“As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Nothing is forever except change.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” ― Gautama Buddha
“As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.” ― Gautama Buddha
“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The past is already gone; the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment” ― Gautama Buddha
“With our thoughts we make the world.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.” ― Gautama Buddha
“A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” ― Gautama Buddha
“True love is born from understanding.” ― Gautama Buddha
“If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?” ― Gautama Buddha
“Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Attachment leads to suffering.” ― Gautama Buddha
“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all” ― Gautama Buddha
“You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.” ― Gautama Buddha
“A man asked Gautama Buddha, “I want happiness. Buddha said, “First remove “I,” that’s Ego, then remove “want,” that’s Desire. See now you are left with only “Happiness.” ― Gautama Buddha
“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” ― Gautama Buddha
“What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.” ― Gautama Buddha
“She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The greatest prayer is patience.” ― Gautama Buddha
“You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.” ― Gautama Buddha
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” ― Gautama Buddha
“May all that have life be delivered from suffering” ― Gautama Buddha
“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky” ― Gautama Buddha
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.” ― Gautama Buddha
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.” ― Gautama Buddha
“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.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.” ― Gautama Buddha
“To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.” ― Gautama Buddha
“In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.” ― Gautama Buddha
“When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.” ― Gautama Buddha
“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.” ― Gautama Buddha
“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.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” ― Gautama Buddha
“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” ― Gautama Buddha
“If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.” ― Gautama Buddha
“People with opinions just go around bothering one another.” ― Gautama Buddha
“He is able who thinks he is able.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” ― Gautama Buddha
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”― Gautama Buddha
“Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow. But, ancient wisdom has advocated a different timeless strategy to overcome hatred. This eternal wisdom is to meet hatred with non-hatred. The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.”― Gautama Buddha
“There are no chains like hate…dwelling on your brother’s faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.” ― Gautama Buddha
“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.” ― Gautama Buddha
“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.” ― Gautama Buddha
“There isn’t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.” ― Gautama Buddha
“To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.” ― Gautama Buddha
“More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” ― Gautama Buddha
“It is better to travel, than to arrive” ― Gautama Buddha
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out” ― Gautama Buddha
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Be greatly aware of the present.” ― Gautama Buddha
“How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.” ― Gautama Buddha
“One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world” ― Gautama Buddha
“All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.” ― Gautama Buddha
“All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day’s life of one who is wise and meditative.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.” ― Gautama Buddha
For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what’s skillful, the cleansing of one’s own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.” ― Gautama Buddha
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.” ― Gautama Buddha
“From a withered tree, a flower blooms” ― Gautama Buddha
“Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily, the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be Pure.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe” ― Gautama Buddha
“The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next” ― Gautama Buddha
“Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be; it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.” ― Gautama Buddha
“A jug fills drop by drop.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Contentment is the greatest wealth” ― Gautama Buddha
“If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Those who consider the inessential to be essential and see the essential as inessential Don’t reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention” ― Gautama Buddha
“The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Just to say ‘I believe’ or ‘I do not doubt’ does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.” ― Gautama Buddha
“As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.” ― Gautama Buddha
“In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate Only love dispels hate This is the law Ancient and inexhaustible You too shall pass away Knowing this, how can you quarrel” ― Gautama Buddha
“It is in a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Of bones the city is made, plastered with flesh and blood, where decay and death are deposited, And pride, and ingratitude.” ― Gautama Buddha
“If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.” ― Gautama Buddha
“If you knew what I know about the power of giving you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.” ― Gautama Buddha
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our own mind” ― Gautama Buddha
“Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate. Live in joy, in health, even among the afflicted. Live in joy, in peace, even among the troubled. Look within, be still. Free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of the way.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no world lings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith” ― Gautama Buddha
“Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those that a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.” ― Gautama Buddha
“All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arising’s. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.” ― Gautama Buddha
“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Opinion, O disciples, is a disease; opinion is a tumor; opinion is a sore. He who has overcome all opinion, O disciples, is called a saint, one who knows.” ― Gautama Buddha
“When you like a flower, you just pluck it but when you love a flower, you water it daily.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of lovingkindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The darkest night is ignorance.” ― Gautama Buddha
“This I tell you: decay is inherent in all conditioned things. Work out your own salvation, with diligence.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Greater than all the joys of heaven and earth, Greater still than dominion. Over all the worlds, Is the joy of reaching the stream?” ― Gautama Buddha
“To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible — we must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.” ― Gautama Buddha
“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.” ― Gautama Buddha
“He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Don’t give yourself to negligence, Don’t devote yourself to sensual pleasure, Vigilant and absorbed in meditation
One attains abundant happiness.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.” ― Gautama Buddha
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself” ― Gautama Buddha
“Ambition is like love, impatient of both delays and rivals” ― Gautama Buddha
“Delightful are forests where the public does not delight. There the passion-free delight, not seeking sensual pleasure.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Oneself, indeed, is one’s own protector. One does, indeed [make] one’s own destiny. Therefore, control yourself as a merchant does a fine horse.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Love yourself and watch — today, tomorrow, and always.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Though all one’s life a fool associates with a wise person, one no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the soup.” ― Gautama Buddha
“This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. So is all conditioned existence to be seen.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Your worst enemy cannot hurt you as much as your own thoughts, when you haven’t mastered them.” ― Gautama Buddha
“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.” ― Gautama Buddha
“It’s your road…and yours alone… Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. No matter what path you choose, really walk it.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” ― Gautama Buddha
“To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Many do not realize that we here must die for those who realize this quarrels end.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Fearless, free of craving, and without blemish, having reached the goal and destroyed the arrows of becoming One is in one’s final body.” ― Gautama Buddha
“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The less you have, the less you have to worry about.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.” ― Gautama Buddha
“You don’t gather the beauty of a flower by plucking her petals.” ― Gautama Buddha
“He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Virtuous people always let go. They don’t prattle about pleasures and desires. Touched by happiness and then by suffering, the sage shows no sign of being elated or depressed.” ― Gautama Buddha
“The moment you see how important it is to love yourself, you will stop making others suffer.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Those who do not know satisfaction, even when living in a heavenly palace, are still not satisfied. Those who do not know satisfaction, even if rich, are poor. People who know satisfaction, even if poor, are rich.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Live every act fully, as if it were your last.” ― Gautama Buddha
“Buddha was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?” He replied “Nothing! However, let me tell you what I have lost: Anger, anxiety, depression, insecurity, fear of old age and death.” – Gautama Buddha
“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.” – Buddha
“Do not learn how to react, learn how to respond.” – Buddha
