Buddhism Quotes by Gautama Buddha

Look within, thou art the Buddha.

— Gautama Buddha

After enlightenment, the laundry.

— Gautama Buddha

You are all the Buddha.

— Gautama Buddha

What you think you become.

— Gautama Buddha

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

— Gautama Buddha

Conquer the angry man by love.

— Gautama Buddha

The root of suffering is attachment

— Gautama Buddha

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

— Gautama Buddha

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

— Gautama Buddha

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

— Gautama Buddha

(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

— Gautama Buddha

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

— Gautama Buddha

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

— Gautama Buddha

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

— Gautama Buddha

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

— Gautama Buddha

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or…

— Gautama Buddha

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

— Gautama Buddha

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

— Gautama Buddha

“If with uncorrupted mind you feel good will for even one being, you become skilled from that. But a Noble One produces…

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not…

— Gautama Buddha

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world…

— Gautama Buddha

“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a…

— Gautama Buddha

In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what…

— Gautama Buddha

If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and…

— Gautama Buddha

Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or…

— Gautama Buddha

I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be…

— Gautama Buddha

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be…

— Gautama Buddha

A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No,…

— Gautama Buddha

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and…

— Gautama Buddha

When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond…

— Gautama Buddha

“Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected…

— Gautama Buddha

“Monks, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb, with a double-handled saw, even then, whoever of you harbors…

— Gautama Buddha

“Suppose a man threw into the sea a yoke with one hole in it, and the east wind carried it to the…

— Gautama Buddha

“Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned…

— Gautama Buddha

... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon…

— Gautama Buddha

So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,…

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind…

— Gautama Buddha

Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.

— Gautama Buddha