Buddha Quotes
409 Buddha quotes by 201 unique authors
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equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha
— Jack Kerouac
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Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it.…
— Swami Satchidananda
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[C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half…
— Swami Satchidananda
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The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there…
— Tom Robbins
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The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.
— Dan Brown
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All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't…
— John Burdett
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Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there…
— Jack Kerouac
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Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am,…
— Aldous Huxley
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I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only…
— Sarah Vowell
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When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as…
— Dalai Lama
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It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the…
— Pittacus Lore
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The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it…
— Walpola Rahula
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Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We…
— Bill Bryson
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Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart,…
— John Green
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Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their…
— Anthony Horowitz
Who Wrote These Buddha Quotes
201 authors contributed a total of 409 Buddha Quotes, led by these top contributors: