He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang;… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet. — 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
![“Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity…” quote by Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/faa/gautama-buddha-163_be-grateful_pain-in-life-is-inevitable-but-suffering_611620.jpg)
