Buddhist Quotes · Page 4

I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.

— Gautama Buddha

Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.

— Frederick Lenz

In every trial Let understanding fight for you.

— Gautama Buddha

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

— Gautama Buddha

Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.

— Frederick Lenz

Love is the absence of judgment.

— Anonymous

“The ox is slow, but the earth is patient.”

— Zura

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

— Anonymous

Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.

— Bodo Balsys

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

— Gautama Buddha

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

— Anonymous

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

— Dalai Lama

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let…

— Anonymous

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

— Frederick Lenz

Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.

— Leo Sayer

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

— Gautama Buddha

Today in Sri Lanka, Pope Francis visited a Buddhist temple. When asked why, the Pope said, 'Just keeping my options open. It's…

— Conan O'Brien

Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

— Gautama Buddha

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've…

— Hsu Yun

This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to the relation…

— Kenny Smith

I never really got around to discussing that specific topic which I think it crucially important to understand. If you were a…

— Brad Warner

Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing…

— Frederick Lenz

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

— Gautama Buddha

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…

— Gautama Buddha

Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living…

— Nhat Hanh

Having no background in philosophic thought and ignorant of the reasons supporting their faith, they experience great uneasiness when someone questions their…

— Thubten Yeshe

In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the…

— Gautama Buddha

Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not…

— Rajneesh

If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You can keep your own religion - Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism - you just need to add Jesus to the equation. Then…

— Rick Warren

The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and…

— Dan Brown

One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw…

— Jack Kornfield

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

— Gautama Buddha

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

— Gautama Buddha

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

— Gautama Buddha

“The aware do not die; The unaware are as though dead already.”

— Anonymous

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

— Anonymous

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts

— Anonymous

Love and serve the world through your work.

— Gautama Buddha

The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.

— Gautama Buddha