Buddha Quotes (145 Quotes)

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.

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.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

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

There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.

You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Meditate.Live purely. Be quiet.Do your work with mastery.Like the moon, come out from behind the cloudsShine

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

What is the noble truth of suffering Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.

Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.

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

I am the miracle.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

The example of the raft shows dharmas should be treated as provisional, as means to an end. The same holds good of emptiness too, the negation of dharmas. This corollary has elsewhere been illustrated by the simile of medicine which can heal any ill

Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und

Deny the passport, throw it away and make a great decision that you will not leave this shore until and unless you have liberated all the human beings.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impurities.

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

Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that I will lead all of them into nirvana'.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

He is not the same, nor is he another.

It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Be vigilant guard your mind against negative thoughts.

(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increaselong life, beauty, happiness, strength.

So what would Buddha do if a friend is abusing drugs When someone goes wrong, it is right for his real friends to move him, even by force, to do the right thing. ... Do not examine the limitations of others. Examine how you can change your own.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.