Gautama Buddha Quotes

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.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

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.

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.

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.

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

The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.

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.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

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.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

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.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Greater than all the joys
Of heaven and earth,
Greater still than dominion
Over all the worlds,
Is the joy of reaching the stream.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.

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.

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.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

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