The Buddha Quotes

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

After 48 years, I have said nothing.

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.

Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.

It is in this way that I went forth to teach.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

Suffering is an illusion.

For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?

Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

The whole secret of era is to specific no nervousness. Never nervousness what fortitude become of you, depend on no one. Free the twinkling you annul all help are you unrestricting.

Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.

I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

He is able who think he is able.

Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

All composite things decay. Strive diligently.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.

He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.

Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.