Gautama Buddha Quotes

Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.

How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

Be greatly aware of the present.

The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.

Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

To know and not to use is not yet to know!

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.

The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

No matter what path you choose, really walk it.

See the truth, and you will see me.

Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine

Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.

Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

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.

He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy.

‎You only lose that which you cling to.

If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

What you have become is the result of what you have thought

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

If you do not follow the right path, you will be lost.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

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.

Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.

Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.

Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana

You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.