The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release -… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own... — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop… — 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
