Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does… — 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
