The Buddha Quotes
Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.
Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.
Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.
