If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you… — 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 secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A man asked Lord Buddha "I want happiness." Lord Buddha said - first remove "I" that's ego. Then remove "Want" that's desire.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of… — 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 the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
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
