All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity. — 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
Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here… — 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
This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible --… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up… — 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
