Gautama Buddha famous quotes

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Heart #Helping Others #Joy

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else
-- Gautama Buddha

#Wise #Gratitude #Appreciation

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Believe #Sky #People

When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Stars #Moon #Journey

Consider Others as Yourself.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Inspirational #Relationship #Contentment

Doubt everything. Find your own light.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Light #Doubt

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Purity #Oneself

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Pain #Suffering #Certain

Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Wise #Religious #Believe

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Liars #Evil

In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Hate #Law

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

#Buddhist #Steps #Vegetarian

May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Suffering #May

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Attitude #Hate #Mind

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Attitude #Thinking #Oxen

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Letting Go #Yoga #Meditation

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Causes #Disappear

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Spirituality #Awake #Witness

True love is born from understanding.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Love Is #Understanding #Born

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Motivational #Buddhist #Blood

Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Life Is #Dear

It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own...
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Faults #Easy

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Wise #Buddhist #Archer

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Self #Looks #Sanctuary

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

#Buddhist #Men #Evil

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Giving Up #Community

Attachment leads to suffering.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Attachment #Suffering

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

#Monday #Heart #Giving

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Letting Go #Pride #Meditation

There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Inspiring #Wise #Passion

To understand everything is to forgive everything.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Forgiving

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

#Tears #Needs #Flow

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Law #Hatred

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Omission #Done

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

#Perfect #Wonderful

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Relation

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Healing #Compassion #Sorrow

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
-- Gautama Buddha

#Spirituality #Speak #Holy

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?
-- Gautama Buddha

#Needs #Looks #Helping

Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Teacher #Believe #Doctrine

A person creates what they defend against.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Creativity #Persons

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Wise #Fashion #Buddhist

This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. So is all conditioned existence to be seen.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Summer #Dream #Clouds

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Spiritual #Men #Fire

Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist

Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Hate #Imperfection #Greed

Be the witness of your thoughts.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Awareness #Witness

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Violence #Purity #Moderation

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Enmity #World

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Train

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
-- Gautama Buddha

#Past #Gone #Moments

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Flower #Fall #Silence

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Yoga #Moon #Clouds

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Reality #Description #Hypothesis

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Envy #Mind #Doe

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Mind #Remember

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Hurt

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Understanding #Special #Analyzing

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Autumn #Clouds

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Beautiful #Buddhist #Flower

No matter what path you choose, really walk it.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Matter #Path #Walks

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Spiritual #Buddhist #Support

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Liars #Generosity

Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Thousand #Verses

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Hard Work #Rivers #Life Is

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Sorrow #Walks

Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow. But, ancient wisdom has advocated a different timeless strategy to overcome hatred. This eternal wisdom is to meet hatred with non-hatred. The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Warrior #Giving #Hatred

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Love Life #Men

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Beautiful #Buddhist #Flower

The trouble is you think you have time.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Short Life #Thinking #Trouble

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
-- Gautama Buddha

#Men #Next #Delight

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

#Running #Men #Sides

Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Men #Unbiased #Finding Peace

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Peace #Buddhist #Men

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Past #Snakes #Skins

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.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Men #Different #Littles

There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Brother #Hate #Journey

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Lying #Roots #Evil

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

#Wisdom #Moon #Long

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Change #Things Change #Remains

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Long #Mind #Resentment

Be greatly aware of the present.
-- Gautama Buddha

Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out
-- Gautama Buddha

#Space #Giving #Enough Time

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Beautiful #Flower #Practice

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Suffering #Turns

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.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Self Esteem #Affection #Found

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Teaching

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #World

A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Believe #Men

One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Humility #Pride #Thinking

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Conquer #Thousand

It's your road...and yours alone... Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. No matter what path you...
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #May #Matter

Craving and desire are the cause of all unhappiness. Everything sooner or later must change, so do not become attached to anything. Instead devote...
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Desire #Causes

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Life #Buddhist #Enemy

Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come...
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Going Away #Invention

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Grief #Born

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Law #Hatred