Buddha Quotes

Buddha Quotes

• "All conditioned things are impermanent" -- when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

• "Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts."

• "Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth." 

• "Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds."

• "People with opinions just go around bothering each other."  

• "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the single candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." 

• "We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis...,"

• 'As I am, so are these. so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

• A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated --- this the greatest blessing.

• All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

• As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

• As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows short from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

• Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.