Gautama Buddha Quotes

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.

Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.

You are what you think about.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

Born out of concern for all beings.

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.

The darkest night is ignorance.

Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

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.

Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

Awakening is natural,delusion is not

Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

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