Gautama Buddha Quotes

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.

When things are going well, be mindful of adversityWhen prosperous, be mindful of povertyWhen loved, be mindful of thoughtfulnessWhen respected, be mindful of humility

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.

Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.

The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.

Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.

How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

Learn to ne happy with what you have.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.

I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.

Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.

This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.

After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

Don't just do something, be there.

Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

Remember that the only constant in life is change.