Gautama Buddha Quotes

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

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.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

True love is born from understanding.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.

The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.

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.

In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

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.

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.

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.

With our thoughts we make the world.