Gautama Buddha Quotes

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

Treat others with respect. How you treat others will be how they treat you.

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.

The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

Make of yourself a light.

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

It is our own thoughts that lead us into trouble, not other people.

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.

The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.

Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.

Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.