Buddhist Quotes

822 quotes by 218 authors

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. — Dalai Lama
By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple… — Nhat Hanh
One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will… — Dalai Lama
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at… — Nhat Hanh
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and… — Hermann Hesse
If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. — Nhat Hanh
Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a… — Dalai Lama
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not… — Dalai Lama
Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or… — Dalai Lama
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. — Nhat Hanh
I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care,… — Nhat Hanh
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. — Daisaku Ikeda
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. — Alan Watts
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and… — John Green
She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen… — John Green
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and… — Pema Chodron
Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values. — Dalai Lama
Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or… — Dalai Lama
The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of… — Dalai Lama
Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids,… — Cynthia Leitich Smith

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