Buddhist Quotes · Page 19

In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

— Gautama Buddha

Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.

— Gautama Buddha

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

— Anonymous

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

— Norm Phelps

Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.

— Dalai Lama

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

— Mike Love

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

— Nikola Tesla

“Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.”

— Allan Lokos

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

— Frederick Lenz

This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much…

— Albert Ellis

To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance…

— Frederick Lenz

Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up…

— Gautama Buddha

Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death…

— William Empson

To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and…

— Dalai Lama

I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on…

— Amber Mark

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving…

— Sylvia Boorstein

A person without an Apple watch is perfectly content with his present watch but when he sees his friends buying the watch,…

— Philip Kotler

My beliefs are that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then it becomes a lie. I don't think…

— Wayne Dyer

Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including…

— Jay L. Garfield

The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the…

— Zicheng Hong

As a book person and a movie person, I feel Jewish. My Dad was more Buddhist than anything, and on the West…

— Jonathan Raymond

Whole idea is really intriguing to me. If you took snapshots of ourselves throughout the day, the way that our mind is…

— George Saunders

Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we…

— Dan Kimball

The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of…

— Russell Simmons

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

— Sheng-yen

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

— Sakyong Mipham

As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is…

— Martha Beck

Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.

— Gautama Buddha

Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind

— Garchen Rinpoche

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

— Gautama Buddha

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

— Gautama Buddha

Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

— Gautama Buddha

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's…

— Alice Walker

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

— Anne Lamott

“You told me you were a fucking Buddhist. You should know it's always about the breath." (Vin)”

— Edmond Manning

Follow the three R's: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.-

— Anonymous

“Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.”

— Norman Fischer

If anything, I label myself as sort of Buddhist. My wife Jane is Buddhist.

— Jimmy Barnes

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

— Gautama Buddha