Buddhist Quotes

Consider Others as Yourself.

— Gautama Buddha

Don't preach about meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

What you think you become.

— Gautama Buddha

Fill your mind with compassion.

— Gautama Buddha

Be gentle with the earth.

— Dalai Lama

War is out of date, obsolete.

— Dalai Lama

I am always at the beginning.

— Gautama Buddha

Be a light unto yourself.

— Gautama Buddha

“Patience has all the time it needs.”

— Allan Lokos

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

— Gautama Buddha

When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.

— Gautama Buddha

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

— Burton Cummings

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace

— Anonymous

Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others

— Gautama Buddha

My actions are my only true belongings.

— Anonymous

“Are you a Buddhist?" "No, I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.”

— Scott Hawkins

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

— Jack Kornfield

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

— Ayya Khema

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

— Dalai Lama

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

— Pema Chodron

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

— Frederick Lenz

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

— Gautama Buddha

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

— Anonymous

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the…

— Gautama Buddha

The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of…

— Frederick Lenz

I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate,…

— Gautama Buddha

When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of…

— Frederick Lenz

Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory.…

— Larry Dossey

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect…

— Dalai Lama

I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of…

— Frederick Lenz

“The victorious ones have said That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has…

— Nāgārjuna

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he…

— Gautama Buddha

…the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them…

— Joseph Campbell

I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the…

— Tenzin Palmo

Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered…

— Gary Snyder

From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn…

— Dalai Lama

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people…

— E. F. Schumacher

They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing…

— Gautama Buddha

To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief;…

— Buddhadasa