One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully. — 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
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit. — 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
There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like… — 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
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge;… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure. — 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
