Gautama Buddha Quotes

Most popular Gautama Buddha Quotes

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
— Gautama Buddha

wise anger buddhist

Believe nothing merely because you have been told 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 kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings — that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Believe nothing merely because you have been told 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 kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings — that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
— Gautama Buddha

beliefs buddhist

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth and faithfulness the greatest relationship. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth and faithfulness the greatest relationship.
— Gautama Buddha

buddhist health contentment

We do not possess our home, our children, or even our own body. They are only given to us for a short while to treat with care and respect. - Gautama Buddha quote.
We do not possess our home, our children, or even our own body. They are only given to us for a short while to treat with care and respect.
— Gautama Buddha

possessions

In a man's family, respect and listening are the source of harmony. - Gautama Buddha quote.
In a man's family, respect and listening are the source of harmony.
— Gautama Buddha

family listening respect

Though a fool spend all his life with wise men, he will know the truth no more than a spoon knows the taste of the soup. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Though a fool spend all his life with wise men, he will know the truth no more than a spoon knows the taste of the soup.
— Gautama Buddha The Dhammapada—5:64-65

foolishness

Life is accessible only in the present moment. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Life is accessible only in the present moment.
— Gautama Buddha

present moment

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.
— Gautama Buddha

forgiveness

I taught you not to believe merely because you have heard, but when you believed of your consciousness, then to act accordingly and abundantly. - Gautama Buddha quote.
I taught you not to believe merely because you have heard, but when you believed of your consciousness, then to act accordingly and abundantly.
— Gautama Buddha

faith

Life is a bridge, build no house upon it; it is a river, cling not to its banks; it is a gymnasium, use it to develop the mind on the apparatus of circumstance; it is a journey, take it and walk on. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Life is a bridge, build no house upon it; it is a river, cling not to its banks; it is a gymnasium, use it to develop the mind on the apparatus of circumstance; it is a journey, take it and walk on.
— Gautama Buddha Buddha and the Rasava, by Kumaraswamiji (1958)

how to live life life

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
— Gautama Buddha

beliefs common sense

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
— Gautama Buddha

present moment

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.
— Gautama Buddha

letting go

In wisdom be a lamp, a light unto yourself. - Gautama Buddha quote.
In wisdom be a lamp, a light unto yourself.
— Gautama Buddha

self-reliance

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.  Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.  Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
— Gautama Buddha The Teachings of Buddha (The Buddhist Bible): A Compendium of Many Scriptures

anger resentment

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 quote.
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 interconnectedness

One who is not happy with nothing, will not be happy with anything. - Gautama Buddha quote.
One who is not happy with nothing, will not be happy with anything.
— Gautama Buddha

happiness contentment

Not getting what you desire and getting what you desire can both be disappointing. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Not getting what you desire and getting what you desire can both be disappointing.
— Gautama Buddha

desire

The only effort by any intelligent being in this world is to know something that can not be destroyed by death. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The only effort by any intelligent being in this world is to know something that can not be destroyed by death.
— Gautama Buddha

death

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
— Gautama Buddha

impermanence nirvana

As you travel through life, offer good wishes to each being you meet. - Gautama Buddha quote.
As you travel through life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.
— Gautama Buddha

good wishes

Take time everyday to sit quietly and listen. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Take time everyday to sit quietly and listen.
— Gautama Buddha

meditation

However many holy words you read, how many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them? - Gautama Buddha quote.
However many holy words you read, how many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
— Gautama Buddha

action religion

You are all the Buddha. - Gautama Buddha quote.
You are all the Buddha.
— Gautama Buddha

buddhist

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin today. - Gautama Buddha quote.
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin today.
— Gautama Buddha

the past today

Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled. The wise man becomes full of good, even if he gathers it little by little. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled. The wise man becomes full of good, even if he gathers it little by little.
— Gautama Buddha

Goodness

Do not be attached to the judgments of others, for your interpretation in the end will be the most important. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not be attached to the judgments of others, for your interpretation in the end will be the most important.
— Gautama Buddha

what others think

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
— Gautama Buddha

happiness

If you take care of each moment, you will take care of all time. - Gautama Buddha quote.
If you take care of each moment, you will take care of all time.
— Gautama Buddha

present moment

Always have the support of a joyful mind in all situations. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Always have the support of a joyful mind in all situations.
— Gautama Buddha

joy

Help men but don't get in the way of men being able to help themselves. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Help men but don't get in the way of men being able to help themselves.
— Gautama Buddha

helping others

Everything in moderation, including moderation. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
— Gautama Buddha

moderation

Do not draw attention to yourself as you perform good works. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not draw attention to yourself as you perform good works.
— Gautama Buddha

credit

Do not expect thanks. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not expect thanks.
— Gautama Buddha

gratitude

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? - Gautama Buddha quote.
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
— Gautama Buddha

kindness

He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. - Gautama Buddha quote.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

inner peace envy

We are not independent but interdependent. - Gautama Buddha quote.
We are not independent but interdependent.
— Gautama Buddha

interdependence

Learn to respond, not react. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Learn to respond, not react.
— Gautama Buddha

reaction

Better to conquer yourself than to conquer thousands in battle. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Better to conquer yourself than to conquer thousands in battle.
— Gautama Buddha

the self

Simplicity brings more happiness than complexity. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Simplicity brings more happiness than complexity.
— Gautama Buddha

simplicity

Even death is not to be feared by he who has lived wisely. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Even death is not to be feared by he who has lived wisely.
— Gautama Buddha

death wisdom

The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.
— Gautama Buddha

Giving

What we think, we become. - Gautama Buddha quote.
What we think, we become.
— Gautama Buddha

thoughts

A jug fills drop by drop. - Gautama Buddha quote.
A jug fills drop by drop.
— Gautama Buddha
Be a light unto yourself. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Be a light unto yourself.
— Gautama Buddha

self-reliance

There is no joy like peace. - Gautama Buddha quote.
There is no joy like peace.
— Gautama Buddha

inner peace

The greatest prayer is patience. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The greatest prayer is patience.
— Gautama Buddha

prayer patience

The mind contains all possibilities. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The mind contains all possibilities.
— Gautama Buddha

mind

It is better to travel well than to arrive. - Gautama Buddha quote.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
— Gautama Buddha

Travel

Do not work to make money for money's sake. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not work to make money for money's sake.
— Gautama Buddha

money

Only by nonviolence is excellence achieved. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Only by nonviolence is excellence achieved.
— Gautama Buddha

nonviolence

The trouble is that you think you have time. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The trouble is that you think you have time.
— Gautama Buddha
In all circumstances, try to cultivate virtue. - Gautama Buddha quote.
In all circumstances, try to cultivate virtue.
— Gautama Buddha

virtue

That which is time, is timeless, is found now. - Gautama Buddha quote.
That which is time, is timeless, is found now.
— Gautama Buddha

present moment

The greatest word in any language is nobility. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The greatest word in any language is nobility.
— Gautama Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
— Gautama Buddha

inner peace

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
— Gautama Buddha
Do not expect truth to prevail in all situations. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not expect truth to prevail in all situations.
— Gautama Buddha

truth

When you walk, just walk; when you eat, just eat. - Gautama Buddha quote.
When you walk, just walk; when you eat, just eat.
— Gautama Buddha

mindfulness

The mind is everything. What you think you become. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
— Gautama Buddha

mind

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

forgiveness

Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
— Gautama Buddha

self-reliance

Give up all hope for results and be in the moment. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Give up all hope for results and be in the moment.
— Gautama Buddha

present moment

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
— Gautama Buddha

enlightenment

Joy and openness come from our own contented heart. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
— Gautama Buddha

contentment

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
— Gautama Buddha

nirvana self-reliance

Blessings come from care, troubles from carelessness. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Blessings come from care, troubles from carelessness.
— Gautama Buddha

mindfulness

Free your heart. Travel like the moon among the stars. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Free your heart. Travel like the moon among the stars.
— Gautama Buddha

letting go

If you do not care for each other, who will care for you? - Gautama Buddha quote.
If you do not care for each other, who will care for you?
— Gautama Buddha

brotherhood of man helping others

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
— Gautama Buddha

resentment

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
— Gautama Buddha
The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
— Gautama Buddha

words

Do not make someone else do the work that you should be doing. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not make someone else do the work that you should be doing.
— Gautama Buddha

duty

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. - Gautama Buddha quote.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
— Gautama Buddha

good and evil

Study the teachings of the great sages of all sects impartially. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Study the teachings of the great sages of all sects impartially.
— Gautama Buddha

religion

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
— Gautama Buddha

Goodness

Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.
— Gautama Buddha

opinions letting go

Purity and impurity belong to oneself; no one can purify another. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Purity and impurity belong to oneself; no one can purify another.
— Gautama Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
— Gautama Buddha

words platitudes

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. - Gautama Buddha quote.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
— Gautama Buddha

work

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. - Gautama Buddha quote.
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
— Gautama Buddha

detachment

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
— Gautama Buddha

truth

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
— Gautama Buddha

virtue

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. - Gautama Buddha quote.
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
— Gautama Buddha

mind

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
— Gautama Buddha
Holy is the forest. Holy is that place where the senses are at peace. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Holy is the forest. Holy is that place where the senses are at peace.
— Gautama Buddha

nature

There is the path of fear and the path of love. Which will you follow? - Gautama Buddha quote.
There is the path of fear and the path of love. Which will you follow?
— Gautama Buddha

fear

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
— Gautama Buddha
Observe proper action at all times, even at the risk of your own life. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Observe proper action at all times, even at the risk of your own life.
— Gautama Buddha

being good

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
— Gautama Buddha

today

Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love.
— Gautama Buddha

perfection

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
— Gautama Buddha

self-reliance

Desire blinds us, like the pickpocket who sees only the saint's pockets. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Desire blinds us, like the pickpocket who sees only the saint's pockets.
— Gautama Buddha

desire

An upright posture and a few relaxed breaths can make a great difference. - Gautama Buddha quote.
An upright posture and a few relaxed breaths can make a great difference.
— Gautama Buddha
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. - Gautama Buddha quote.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
— Gautama Buddha

evil mind

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

compassion

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated. - Gautama Buddha quote.
At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.
— Gautama Buddha

human nature

What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now. - Gautama Buddha quote.
What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.
— Gautama Buddha
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
— Gautama Buddha

hate

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. - Gautama Buddha quote.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
— Gautama Buddha

anger

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.
— Gautama Buddha

inner peace

Whatever we cultivate in time of ease, we gather as strength for time of change. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Whatever we cultivate in time of ease, we gather as strength for time of change.
— Gautama Buddha
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
— Gautama Buddha

forgiveness resentment

The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
— Gautama Buddha
We do not need more knowledge but more wisdom. Wisdom comes from our own attention. - Gautama Buddha quote.
We do not need more knowledge but more wisdom. Wisdom comes from our own attention.
— Gautama Buddha

wisdom knowledge and wisdom

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
— Gautama Buddha

purpose of life

All wrongdoing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrongdoing remain? - Gautama Buddha quote.
All wrongdoing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrongdoing remain?
— Gautama Buddha

mind

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

spiritual

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
— Gautama Buddha

self-acceptance

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. - Gautama Buddha quote.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
— Gautama Buddha

self-acceptance

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. - Gautama Buddha quote.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
— Gautama Buddha

self-reliance

If you can't find the truth right where you are, where else do you think you will find it? - Gautama Buddha quote.
If you can't find the truth right where you are, where else do you think you will find it?
— Gautama Buddha
Be grateful to all men for the teachings they give, be it in understanding or in tolerance. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Be grateful to all men for the teachings they give, be it in understanding or in tolerance.
— Gautama Buddha

gratitude

All great teachings have the single purpose of controlling the ego to create a better world. - Gautama Buddha quote.
All great teachings have the single purpose of controlling the ego to create a better world.
— Gautama Buddha

ego

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

possessions detachment wealth

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that, and all will be well. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that, and all will be well.
— Gautama Buddha

impermanence

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering—an image of death. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering—an image of death.
— Gautama Buddha

health

Seek friends who have beliefs and habits like thine own and in whom thou canst place thy trust. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Seek friends who have beliefs and habits like thine own and in whom thou canst place thy trust.
— Gautama Buddha

friendship

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
— Gautama Buddha
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others. - Gautama Buddha quote.
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
— Gautama Buddha
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
— Gautama Buddha

mind

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
— Gautama Buddha

speech

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

health contentment

Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
— Gautama Buddha

present moment

Constantly maintain alertness of consciousness in walking, in sitting, in eating, and in sleeping. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Constantly maintain alertness of consciousness in walking, in sitting, in eating, and in sleeping.
— Gautama Buddha

mindfulness

The smallest good deed done unselfishly is more precious than innumerable good deeds done selfishly. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The smallest good deed done unselfishly is more precious than innumerable good deeds done selfishly.
— Gautama Buddha

helping others selfishness

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. - Gautama Buddha quote.
If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.
— Gautama Buddha

thoughts

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. - Gautama Buddha quote.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
— Gautama Buddha

thoughts

Words have the power to destroy or heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change the world. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Words have the power to destroy or heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
— Gautama Buddha

words

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.
— Gautama Buddha

fear

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth.
— Gautama Buddha

self-determination

Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. Only here and now can we truly love. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. Only here and now can we truly love.
— Gautama Buddha

present moment

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - Gautama Buddha quote.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
— Gautama Buddha

enlightenment

Begin each day with the idea of being able to generate compassion and understanding the whole day through. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Begin each day with the idea of being able to generate compassion and understanding the whole day through.
— Gautama Buddha

how to live life

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

inner peace envy

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

health

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
— Gautama Buddha

virtue

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? - Gautama Buddha quote.
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
— Gautama Buddha

heart

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the man who endures that the final victory comes. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the man who endures that the final victory comes.
— Gautama Buddha

perseverance

In business, reinvest a portion of all you make, keep a portion for your use, and save a portion for those in need. - Gautama Buddha quote.
In business, reinvest a portion of all you make, keep a portion for your use, and save a portion for those in need.
— Gautama Buddha

business

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 quote.
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

action

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. - Gautama Buddha quote.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.
— Gautama Buddha

thoughts

If you have a friend sober, pure, and wise, let nothing hold you back — find delight and instruction in his company. - Gautama Buddha quote.
If you have a friend sober, pure, and wise, let nothing hold you back — find delight and instruction in his company.
— Gautama Buddha
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
— Gautama Buddha

words

Although a cloth be washed a hundred time, how can it be rendered clean and pure if it be washed in water which is dirty? - Gautama Buddha quote.
Although a cloth be washed a hundred time, how can it be rendered clean and pure if it be washed in water which is dirty?
— Gautama Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Gautama Buddha quote.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
— Gautama Buddha

thoughts

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Gautama Buddha quote.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
— Gautama Buddha

laziness diligence

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. - Gautama Buddha quote.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
— Gautama Buddha

anger arguments

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No man can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No man can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.
— Gautama Buddha

thoughts

Foolish to think that truth is in untruth, equally foolish that untruth is in truth — truth is always truth, untruth always untruth. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Foolish to think that truth is in untruth, equally foolish that untruth is in truth — truth is always truth, untruth always untruth.
— Gautama Buddha
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. - Gautama Buddha quote.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
— Gautama Buddha

objectivity mind

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all.
— Gautama Buddha

equanimity

Fear is always an anticipation of what has not yet come. Our fear and separation are great, but the truth of our connection is greater still. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Fear is always an anticipation of what has not yet come. Our fear and separation are great, but the truth of our connection is greater still.
— Gautama Buddha

interconnectedness

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. - Gautama Buddha quote.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
— Gautama Buddha

bad company friendship

For a man who understandeth thoroughly the teachings which he hath received, it is the same whether he meets with good fortune or with bad fortune. - Gautama Buddha quote.
For a man who understandeth thoroughly the teachings which he hath received, it is the same whether he meets with good fortune or with bad fortune.
— Gautama Buddha

equanimity misfortune

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. - Gautama Buddha quote.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
— Gautama Buddha

the self

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. - Gautama Buddha quote.
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.
— Gautama Buddha

fear

What is the appropriate behaviour for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? - Gautama Buddha quote.
What is the appropriate behaviour for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
— Gautama Buddha

detachment

A man that cleaves to wealth had better cast it away than allow his heart to be poisoned by it; but a man who does not cleave to wealth, and possessing riches, uses them rightly, will be a blessing unto his fellow humans. - Gautama Buddha quote.
A man that cleaves to wealth had better cast it away than allow his heart to be poisoned by it; but a man who does not cleave to wealth, and possessing riches, uses them rightly, will be a blessing unto his fellow humans.
— Gautama Buddha

wealth

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. - Gautama Buddha quote.
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.
— Gautama Buddha

doubt

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. - Gautama Buddha quote.
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.
— Gautama Buddha

mind misfortune

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, 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. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, 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.
— Gautama Buddha

gratitude

The charitable man is loved by all; his friendship is prized highly; in death his heart is at rest and full of joy, for he suffers not from repentance; he receives the opening flower of his reward and the fruit that ripens from it. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The charitable man is loved by all; his friendship is prized highly; in death his heart is at rest and full of joy, for he suffers not from repentance; he receives the opening flower of his reward and the fruit that ripens from it.
— Gautama Buddha

charity

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. - Gautama Buddha quote.
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.
— Gautama Buddha

wisdom virtue

Giving brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous, we experience joy in the actual act of giving something, and we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Giving brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous, we experience joy in the actual act of giving something, and we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.
— Gautama Buddha

Giving

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 quote.
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

self-control

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 quote.
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-care

Avoid these two extremes . . . which two? On the one hand, low, vulgar, ignoble, and useless indulgence in passion and luxury; and on the other, painful, ignoble and useless practice of self-torture and mortification. Take the Middle Path for it leads to insight and peace, wisdom and enlightenment, and to Nirvana. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Avoid these two extremes . . . which two? On the one hand, low, vulgar, ignoble, and useless indulgence in passion and luxury; and on the other, painful, ignoble and useless practice of self-torture and mortification. Take the Middle Path for it leads to insight and peace, wisdom and enlightenment, and to Nirvana.
— Gautama Buddha

buddhist

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. - Gautama Buddha quote.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
— Gautama Buddha

beliefs

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
— Gautama Buddha

how to live life present moment

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

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