Gautama Buddha Quotes on Love, Life, Happiness & Teachings That Will Give Us True Lessons

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. — Buddha

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

Everything that has a beginning has an ending.. MAke peace with that and all will be well. — Buddha

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

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 Quotes

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

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. — Buddha

Yourself Quotes: Believe, meditate and see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the Dharma and from all sorrow free yourself. — Buddha

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

Everyday is a new day! “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” — 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

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. — 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

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path. — Buddha Quotes[

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. — 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 Quotes

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. — 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

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

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

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

Follow the awakened and from among the blind the light of your wisdom will shine out, purely. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another. — Buddha

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law. — 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

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. — Buddha

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

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. — 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

Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless. Be blameless. Awake to the Dharma and from all sorrow free yourself. — Buddha

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

Everything arises and passes away. When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way. — 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 Quotes

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 Quotes

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

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

There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path. — Gautama 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

It is better to do nothing than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself. — Buddha

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

250* 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

251* 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