The Buddha Quotes

At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.

Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.

The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.

Conquer a liar with truth.

Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.

Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.

You are what you think about.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

Born out of concern for all beings.

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream