Gautama Buddha Quotes

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

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.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

Consider Others as Yourself.

Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

Want what you have and you will always get what you want.

A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.

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

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

True love is born from understanding.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

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

Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

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

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts

Let a man overcome anger by love.

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.

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.

Do not speak - unless it improves on silence.

Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

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.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

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.

Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

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.

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

The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

The root of suffering is attachment

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

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