Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“A Buddhist story is that a man came shouting angrily at Buddha, who remained unaffected by him. When questioned by others as… — Bronnie Ware Copy Share Image
I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
What God is doing today is calling people out of the world for His name. Whether they come from the Muslim world,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
My dad was a Buddhist when I was young, so when I was begging to become a Catholic, he was saying no… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being a vegetarian Buddhist would be a bit harsh to deal with in the kitchen, so I'm a Taoist, I study martial… — Arthur Potts Dawson Copy Share Image
If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
“If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen… — Yongey Mingyur Copy Share Image
Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
I think more like a quantum Buddhist, in that there is a universal proto-conscious mind which we access, and can influence us.… — Stuart Hameroff Copy Share Image
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think that whatever we encounter in life, we want to encourage a balance between the mind and the soul...and that is… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
![“It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.” quote by Chiang Kai-shek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/695/chiang-kai-shek-11937_age_it-was-entirely-due-to-my-mother-a-devou_1048783.jpg)
