The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. — 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
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise -… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the… — 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
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the… — 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
Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go… — 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
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which… — 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
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit. — 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
Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world. — 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
![“To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus [holymen]; it does not consist of meat... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook…” quote by Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/688/gautama-buddha-163_consumed_to-avoid-causing-terror-to-living-beings_1575051.jpg)
