« All Inspiration Quotes · Gautama Buddha's Page
Inspiration Quotes by Gautama Buddha
- Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine
- You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of…
- You yourself must earnestly practise, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path
- Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
- Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the…
- Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless…
- When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare
- You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred
- Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views
- When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is
- Through one all are known, through one all are also seen
- Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and…
- When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One…
- Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena
- Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances
- Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through…
- Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
- Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
- Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.
- Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings…
- Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and…
- Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
More Inspiration Quotes
- Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- The optimum committee has no members. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- May God protect me from gloomy saints. — Teresa of Avila
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. — Richard Bach
- Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. — Richard Bach