Quotes by Gautama Buddha

Live in joy, in love,even among those who hate.Live in joy, in health,even among the afflicted.Live in joy, in peace,even among the troubled.Look within, be still.Free from fear and attachment,know the sweet joy of the way.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

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

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.

It is better to travel, than to arrive

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

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

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

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.

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again.House-builder, youre seen!You will not build a house again.All your rafters broken,the ridge pole destroyed,gone to the Unformed, the mind has come to the end of craving.

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.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form and who calls nothing his own.[Verse 221] TR- Friedrich Max Müller

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Dont reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention