Gautama Buddha Quotes

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Be a lamp unto yourself.

Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

Conquer the angry man by love.

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

Man should make himself a lot of good karma.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

Flower and thorn are in the same stem.

There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

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.

This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.

Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.

The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.

Conquer a liar with truth.

Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.