Buddhist Quotes
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Buddhist Quotes & Sayings
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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
— Gautama Buddha
Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.
— Frederick Lenz
Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.
— Frederick Lenz
We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis ...
— Gautama Buddha
How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.
— Gautama Buddha
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
— Gautama Buddha
When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.
— Gautama Buddha
There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.
— Frederick Lenz
Better than a thousand sayingsMade up of useless words
Is one word of meaning
Which calms you to hear it. — Anonymous
In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.
— Mechai Viravaidya
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
— Gautama Buddha
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
— Thomas Merton
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
— Richard Gere
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
— Gautama Buddha
A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.
— Gautama Buddha
Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
— Ayya Khema
All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
— Gautama Buddha
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
— Gautama Buddha
The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.
— Dennis Merzel
A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
— Gautama Buddha
Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.
— Frederick Lenz
No sane person fears nothingness.
— Robert A.F. Thurman
Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
— Gautama Buddha
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
— Gautama Buddha
Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.
— Dalai Lama
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.
— Gautama Buddha
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
— Gautama Buddha
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
— John Burdett
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
— Gautama Buddha
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
— Gautama Buddha
We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.
— Gautama 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.
— Gautama Buddha
I am always at the beginning.
— Gautama Buddha
Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.
— Harry Carpenter
I am a simple Buddhist monk.
— Dalai Lama
Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
— Gautama Buddha
Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.
— Frederick Lenz
I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.
— George Sanders
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
— M. Scott Peck
The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.
— Gautama Buddha
Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it ...
— Gautama Buddha
Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.
— Frederick Lenz
Don't preach about meditation.
— Frederick Lenz
The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.
— Frederick Lenz
Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.
— Frederick Lenz
Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.
— Frederick Lenz
In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.
— Gautama Buddha
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
— Gautama Buddha
I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
— Hunter S. Thompson
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
— Joseph Jarman
Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
— Gautama Buddha
Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
— Gautama Buddha
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
— Terence McKenna
A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air.
— Frederick Lenz
Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.
— Gautama Buddha
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
— Gautama Buddha
How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.
— Frederick Lenz
If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.
— Gautama Buddha
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
— Gautama Buddha
True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan.
— Kumar Sangakkara
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.
— Gautama Buddha
This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.
— Dalai Lama
To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.
— Gautama Buddha
By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.
— Gautama Buddha
Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal.
— Frederick Lenz
Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin.
— Frederick Lenz
A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says "f*** you" to fate.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
War is out of date, obsolete.
— Dalai Lama
Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.
— Gautama Buddha
Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.
— Gautama Buddha
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.
— Gautama Buddha
