Gautama Buddha Quotes

The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

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.

The whole secret of era is to specific no nervousness. Never nervousness what fortitude become of you, depend on no one. Free the twinkling you annul all help are you unrestricting.

If you don't see God in the next person you meet, look no further.

If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.

When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

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

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

He is able who think he is able.

He who is kind to animals heaven will protect.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

The fiercest fire is hatred.

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.

Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.

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

Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.

We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.

If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.

The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

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.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

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

Make of yourself a light.

You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. all phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.