The Buddha Quotes
Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.
Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame.
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect
Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.
When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.
Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.
Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.
Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.
If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.
If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
Live in joy and love even among those who hate; live in joy and peace even among the troubled.
Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.
Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?
All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH.
Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
