--- title: "9 Cease Quotes By Gautama Buddha" description: "9 Cease quotes by Gautama Buddha. Plus more from Gautama Buddha and more Cease sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c7/gautama-buddha-163_buddhism_hatred-does-not-cease-by-hatred-but-only_1997204.jpg" --- > [Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/hatred-does-not-cease-by-hatred-but-only-by-love/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c7/gautama-buddha-163_buddhism_hatred-does-not-cease-by-hatred-but-only_1997204.jpg) > [Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/hatred-does-not-cease-in-this-world-by-hating-but-by-not-hating-this/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/gautama-buddha-163_cease_hatred-does-not-cease-in-this-world-by-h_2618144.jpg) > [Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/never-in-the-world-does-hatred-cease-by-hatred-hatred-ceases-by-love/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a47/gautama-buddha-163_cease_never-in-the-world-does-hatred-cease-by_2009861.jpg) > [Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/hatreds-never-cease-by-hatreds-in-this-world-by-love-alone-they-cease/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82d/gautama-buddha-163_alone-in-love_hatreds-never-cease-by-hatreds-in-this-w_1305350.jpg) > [To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/to-cease-from-evil-to-do-good-and-to-purify-the-mind-yourself-this-is/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f6/gautama-buddha-163_buddhist_to-cease-from-evil-to-do-good-and-to-pur_626697.jpg) > [In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/in-exactly-the-same-way-scatter-your-body-your-feeling-your/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/724/gautama-buddha-163_body_in-exactly-the-same-way-scatter-your-bod_2758707.jpg) > [Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/dependent-origination-is-the-teaching-that-life-is-not-the-mere-play/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c18/gautama-buddha-163_blind_dependent-origination-is-the-teaching-th_1400218.jpg) > [There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/there-are-five-things-which-no-one-is-able-to-accomplish-in-this/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/894/gautama-buddha-163_able_there-are-five-things-which-no-one-is-ab_2529916.jpg) > [May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/may-all-beings-everywhere-plagued-with-sufferings-of-body-and-mind/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b60/gautama-buddha-163_befriending_may-all-beings-everywhere-plagued-with-s_2265884.jpg) ## Other authors on Cease ## More by Gautama Buddha > [Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/before-you-ve-seen-it-and-when-you-first-see-it-it-is-the-greatest/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/one-of-his-students-asked-buddha-are-you-the-messiah-no-answered/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/give-thanks-for-what-had-been-given-to-you-however-little-be-pure/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/for-fear-of-causing-terror-to-living-beings-mahamati-let-the/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/be-lamps-unto-yourselves-be-refuges-unto-yourselves-take-yourself-no/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/speak-only-the-speech-that-neither-torments-self-nor-does-harm-to/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Pain is the outcome of sin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/pain-is-the-outcome-of-sin/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/it-is-because-i-perceive-the-danger-in-the-practice-of-mystic-wonders/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/so-too-monks-i-saw-the-ancient-path-the-ancient-road-traveled-by-the/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/if-one-is-the-master-of-oneself-one-is-the-resort-one-can-depend-on/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/watch-the-thought-and-its-ways-with-care-and-let-it-spring-from-love/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/one-is-not-low-because-of-birth-nor-does-birth-make-one-holy-deeds/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/he-who-causes-suffering-shall-suffer-there-is-no-escape/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/if-a-person-does-not-harm-any-living-being-and-does-not-kill-or-cause/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/the-fool-says-these-are-my-sons-this-is-my-land-this-is-my-money-in/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cease/gautama-buddha/#itemlist", "name": "9 Cease Quotes By Gautama Buddha", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gautama Buddha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/hatred-does-not-cease-by-hatred-but-only-by-love/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c7/gautama-buddha-163_buddhism_hatred-does-not-cease-by-hatred-but-only_1997204.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c7/gautama-buddha-163_buddhism_hatred-does-not-cease-by-hatred-but-only_1997204.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c7/gautama-buddha-163_buddhism_hatred-does-not-cease-by-hatred-but-only_1997204.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.” — Gautama Buddha", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gautama Buddha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/hatred-does-not-cease-in-this-world-by-hating-but-by-not-hating-this/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/gautama-buddha-163_cease_hatred-does-not-cease-in-this-world-by-h_2618144.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/gautama-buddha-163_cease_hatred-does-not-cease-in-this-world-by-h_2618144.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/gautama-buddha-163_cease_hatred-does-not-cease-in-this-world-by-h_2618144.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.” — Gautama Buddha", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gautama Buddha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/never-in-the-world-does-hatred-cease-by-hatred-hatred-ceases-by-love/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a47/gautama-buddha-163_cease_never-in-the-world-does-hatred-cease-by_2009861.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a47/gautama-buddha-163_cease_never-in-the-world-does-hatred-cease-by_2009861.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a47/gautama-buddha-163_cease_never-in-the-world-does-hatred-cease-by_2009861.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.” — Gautama Buddha", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. 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May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. 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