The Buddha Quotes

If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don’t hurt anyone in anyway or form.

There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love.

Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence.

Kindness! What a wonderful way to touch someone's heart.

Everything you think today will ultimately reflect in your future. So think carefully, think better.

They may think I’m insane because I left my wonderful job. I may think they are insane because they don’t know the value of life.

If your vision encourages and enables others to hope more, see more, act more, love more, and live more then you are a true pathfinder.

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.

Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence.

I am not the human being that you see. I am the light. In my heart, I feel dances of electromagnetic waves of love and spirit.

The more you focus on the positive and the beauty around you, the more positive and peaceful your life will be.

How can you find time to complain if your life is always changing?

Just like you can’t punish anyone without punishing yourself, you can’t love anyone without loving yourself.

My goal is simple—to live simply and to be kind to all.

The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.

You miss all the possibilities of winning if you don't participate

We often know the truth, but rarely do we follow it.

We are so busy with our everyday lives that we often forget how to live.

Life is a flow of changes—transient and ephemeral.

Love is the best treatment for depression. To get better, you have to give it away as much as you can, as fast as you can, and as often as you can.

A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader’s mind with the ecstasy of joy.

Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching.

In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don’t believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don’t know the ultimate reality.

The ultimate altruism is nothing but the sacrifice of one’s self for the benefit of others. Love yourself but never forget to be altruistic to others in need.

Theism is a philosophy of non-thinker.

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

Zen is the period of time during which a person has true clarity of vision.

The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217)

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

If the conscious falls into the unconscious you fall into a coma, and if the unconscious falls into the conscious and becomes conscious itself, you become enlightened, you become a Buddha, a Sosan.

Love everybody and tell the truth.

The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.

You don't think your way back to joy

To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.

You still are? There go my plans! And the suit I had bought to attend your funeral. Well, well. Anyway, do call me up when you an't.

those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty

This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.

I love you as I do all - not at all.

Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else

Said Buddha to the hot dog vendor, "make me one with everything.

In the nembutsu we see and feel the Buddha everywhere and in everything. Life itself becomes the unfolding of Buddha

The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to his community, was “Transient are all conditioned things.

The Buddha’s criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.

To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.

In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.