Buddhists Quotes

56 Buddhists quotes by 44 unique authors

We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive… — James K. A. Smith
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists. — Jack Kornfield
Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. — Karen Armstrong
Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another… — Frederick Lenz
It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in… — Frederick Lenz
We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it doesn't matter. God's… — Frederick Lenz
Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever… — Hsing Yun
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and… — Alcee Hastings
What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that… — Dennis Quaid
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind. — Martin Scorsese
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not… — Robert Louis Stevenson
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the… — Swami Vivekananda
The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has… — Jeanette Winterson
the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. — Jeanette Winterson
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
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
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
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) — Anne Lamott
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. — John Green
...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you.… — John Green
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black,… — Aberjhani
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even… — Albert Ellis
I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to… — Dalai Lama

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