Buddhist Quotes

822 quotes by 218 authors

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth. — Gautama Buddha
A jug fills drop by drop. — Gautama Buddha
The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth,… — Gautama Buddha
When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself. — Gautama Buddha
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such… — Gautama Buddha
Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever… — Gautama Buddha
Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the… — Gautama Buddha
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. — Gautama Buddha
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment,… — Sylvia Boorstein
After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be! — Wes Nisker
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and… — Gautama Buddha
In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there… — Gautama Buddha
These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated… — Gautama Buddha
In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is… — Gautama Buddha
If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others, nor would the… — Gautama Buddha
One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one… — Gautama Buddha
A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The… — Gautama Buddha
See the truth, and you will see me. — Gautama Buddha
Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as… — Gautama Buddha
I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering. — Gautama Buddha

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