To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods. — 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
Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat?… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Truth is not Arbitrary or a Matter of Opinion, but can be Investigated, and Those who Earnestly Search for the Truth… — 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
Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been… — 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
All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity… — 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
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
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
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
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
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share
