Water Quotes by Gautama Buddha

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

— Gautama Buddha

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

— Gautama Buddha

May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.

— Gautama Buddha

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

— Gautama Buddha

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become…

— Gautama Buddha

As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills…

— Gautama Buddha

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

— Gautama Buddha

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person…

— Gautama Buddha

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape…

— Gautama Buddha

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

— Gautama Buddha

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not…

— Gautama Buddha

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops…

— Gautama Buddha

The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and…

— Gautama Buddha

Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill…

— Gautama Buddha

Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling…

— Gautama Buddha

If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from…

— Gautama Buddha

In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water…

— Gautama Buddha

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is…

— Gautama Buddha

Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed…

— Gautama Buddha

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of…

— Gautama Buddha

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

— Gautama Buddha

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop…

— Gautama Buddha

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

— Gautama Buddha