Buddhist Quotes

822 quotes by 218 authors

Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not… — Shunryu Suzuki
Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water. — Milarepa
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. — A A Milne
You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the… — Nhat Hanh
The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about… — Unknown Author
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry… — Swami Vivekananda
I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant. — Steven Cojocaru
You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains in its intrinsic… — Rajneesh
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's… — Russell Simmons
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along… — Stephen Batchelor
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still… — Alan Watts
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown… — Mark Epstein
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian. — Mahatma Gandhi
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or… — Eckhart Tolle
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year… — Barack Obama
We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much… — Barack Obama
From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent… — Dalai Lama
As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly… — Dalai Lama
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be… — Ray Bradbury
In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants... — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara

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