Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I shall live here in the rains, There in winter, Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool, Not aware of the nearness of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.” — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
