Gautam Buddha Quotes on Life, Love, Peace, Happiness That Will Enlighten You

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” — Buddha

“You will not be punished for your anger, your anger will punish you.” — Buddha

“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance.” — Buddha

“If you find someone with Wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.” — Buddha

“To be a mother is sweet, and a father. It is sweet to live arduously and to master yourself.” — Buddha

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” — Buddha

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” — Buddha

“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.” — Buddha

“There is the taking on of a practice that is pleasant in the present and yields pleasure in the future.” — Buddha

“He has the most who is most content with the least.” — Buddha

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” — Buddha

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.” — Buddha

“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.” — Buddha

“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.” — Buddha

“By this path the past, present and future Bodhisattvas have been saved, are being saved, and will be saved.” — Buddha

“Satisfied covering the body with robes and feeding the belly with morsels I went with all my belongings wherever I went.” — Buddha

“There are these five clinging-aggregates: form, feeling, perception, impulses, and consciousness.” — Buddha

“Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.”— Buddha

“The five skandhas are the holding mass of matter, feelings, perceptions, impulses and the holding mass of consciousness.” — Buddha

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” — Buddha

“The Buddha dissuades beings from the notion of a self, and then through emptiness liberates them from samsara.” — Buddha

“Doubt everything. Find your own light.” — Buddha

“Pain is certain, suffering is optional.” — Buddha

“You are like the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you?” — Buddha

“Though you may read many sutras and speak about them to others, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?” — Buddha

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”  — Buddha

“You can surely not assume that the real essence of form has actually been apprehended.” — Buddha

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” — Buddha

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” — Buddha

“It is in the nature of things that a dispassionate person realizes the knowledge and vision of release.” — Buddha

“Give, even if you only have a little.” — Buddha

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.” — Buddha

“It is in the nature of things that a person whose mind is concentrated knows and sees things as they actually are.” — Buddha

“Without faith, there is no approaching; therefore faith is of much help for approaching the Dharma.” — Buddha

“Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.” — Buddha

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Buddha

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” — Buddha

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” — Buddha

“To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” — Buddha

“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” — Buddha

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

“In a controversy the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.” — Buddha

“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” — Buddha

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, but concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha

“In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” — Buddha

“Love yourself and watch today, tomorrow … always. First, establish yourself in the way, then teach — and so defeat sorrow.”  — Buddha

“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.” — Buddha

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” — Buddha

“The world always finds a way to praise and a way to blame. It always has and it always will.” — Buddha

“The bodhisattva, having stood in the perfection of meditation, does not apprehend form or any of the other skandhas.” — Buddha

“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” — Buddha

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” — Buddha

“If you have a person, you have something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” — Buddha

“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” — Buddha

“Don’t blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity & peace. That is the path for you to follow.” — Buddha

“The thought does not occur to a monk that ‘I am about to attain the cessation of perception and feeling.” — Buddha

“There is the taking on of a practice that is painful in the present but yields pleasure in the future.” — Buddha

“Go beyond this way or that way, to the farthest shore where the world dissolves and everything becomes clear.” — Buddha

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”  — Buddha

“With the purified divine eye, surpassing that of men, a Buddha sees beings as they pass hence or come to be.” — Buddha

“The mind released through wisdom here and now; knowing and realizing, one with the destruction of desires is a recluse.” — Buddha

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.” — Buddha

“If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.” — Buddha

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

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha

“Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.” ― Gautama Buddha

“To keep the body in good health. is a duty.” — Buddha Quotes

“Go beyond likes and dislikes, passion and desire, sensuousness and lust, grief and fear, free yourself from attachment.” — Gautama Buddha

“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.” — Buddha

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” — Gautama Buddha

“In our lives, change is unavoidable, a loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.” — Gautama Buddha

“As dust is thrown against the wind, mischief is blown back in the face of the fool who wrongs the pure and harmless.” — Buddha

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” — Buddha

“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.” — Buddha

“I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.” — Buddha

“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.” — Buddha

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” — Buddha

“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.” — Buddha

“Be truthful; do not yield to anger. Give freely, even if you have but little. The gods will bless you.” — Buddha

“When you attain victory over yourself, not even the gods can turn it into defeat.” — Buddha

“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” — Buddha

“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death, can erase our good deeds.” — Buddha

“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.” — Buddha

“I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.” — Buddha

“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.” — Buddha

“Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.” — Buddha

“May all beings have happy minds.” — Buddha

“Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!” — Buddha

“Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.” — Buddha

“Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.” — Buddha

“In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.” — Buddha

“Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.” — Buddha

“Live with no sense of ‘mine,’ not forming an attachment to experiences.” — Buddha

“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.” — Buddha