The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak… — 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
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
A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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
There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to… — 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
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind. — 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)
