Buddhist Quotes

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.

There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom.

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air.

We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.

Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

Consider Others as Yourself.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

The root of suffering is attachment