Doe Quotes by Gautama Buddha

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

— Gautama Buddha

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.

— Gautama Buddha

How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

— Gautama Buddha

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

— Gautama Buddha

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

— Gautama Buddha

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

— Gautama Buddha

The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more…

— Gautama Buddha

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary…

— Gautama Buddha

Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous…

— Gautama Buddha

Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does…

— Gautama Buddha

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living…

— Gautama Buddha

Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

— Gautama Buddha

An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the…

— Gautama Buddha

'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself,…

— Gautama Buddha

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such…

— Gautama Buddha

How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts…

— Gautama Buddha

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do…

— Gautama Buddha

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he…

— Gautama Buddha

Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings,…

— Gautama Buddha

For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then…

— Gautama Buddha

The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and…

— Gautama Buddha

When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the…

— Gautama Buddha

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which…

— Gautama Buddha

If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come…

— Gautama Buddha

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

— Gautama Buddha

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

— Gautama Buddha

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the…

— Gautama Buddha

The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So…

— Gautama Buddha

If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for…

— Gautama Buddha

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not…

— Gautama Buddha

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense…

— Gautama Buddha

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one…

— Gautama Buddha

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move…

— Gautama Buddha

The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.

— Gautama Buddha

Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

— Gautama Buddha

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and…

— Gautama Buddha

The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he…

— Gautama Buddha

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does…

— Gautama Buddha