Gautama Buddha Quotes

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

What you think you become.

When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.

All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Be a light unto yourself.

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake."

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.

The less you have, the less you have to worry about.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

Your actions are your only true belongings.

Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.

In compassion lies the world's true strength.