Gautama Buddha Quotes
Gautama Buddha Quotes
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
3821 You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
1659 To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
2577 Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
2434 Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
3436 To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
3530 Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
3227 Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
2730 Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it
3588 True love is born from understanding.
2641 May all that have life be delivered from suffering
4426 Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.
2787 The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.
4400 The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
1753 In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?
2673 However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
4555 There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
3173 Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
4687 Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
1862 With our thoughts we make the world.
2934 Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
2964 a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
3239 Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
3117 Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
4286 Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
2821 The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.
3857 Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.
3927 When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
2017 A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
1519 You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
1652 Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
2239 He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
1047 Doubt everything. Find your own light.
4758 Greater than all the joys
Of heaven and earth,
Greater still than dominion
Over all the worlds,
Is the joy of reaching the stream.
3612 Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
4208 Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
3600 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.
2125 Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.
3445 It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
2330 There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
1040 No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
1258 There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
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