Gautama Buddha Quotes

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.

He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.

Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

The seeker is that which is being sought.

And more importantly - what we have chosen to do

As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.

By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

Hate is only conquered by love.

Through one all are known, through one all are also seen

Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.

To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.

So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

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.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

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.

Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young, they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond.

Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.

Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.

It is better to travel, than to arrive

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

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.

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.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Patience is the highest asceticism.

All beings tremble before violence.All fear death.All love life.See yourself in others.Then whom can you hurt?What harm can you do?

You only lose what you cling to.