The Buddha Quotes

Be the witness of your thoughts.

Know what you do not know.

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.

Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives.

Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

Treat others with respect. How you treat others will be how they treat you.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

It is our own thoughts that lead us into trouble, not other people.

Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

Make of yourself a light.

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.

The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.