Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is… — 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
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
'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself,… — 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
The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he… — 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
