Top 100 Gautama Buddha Quotes
#2. Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
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#3. Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering ... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
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#4. Success isn't the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
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#5. As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.
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#6. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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#7. Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.
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#8. Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.
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#9. Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love.
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#10. This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
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#11. As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
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#12. Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.
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#13. When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
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#15. Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?
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#16. We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.
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#17. If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.
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#18. I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon.
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#19. All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.
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#20. Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
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#21. I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.
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#22. The less you have, the less you have to worry about.
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#24. Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.
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#25. May all that have life be delivered from suffering
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#26. As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.
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#27. Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.
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#30. If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.
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#31. AS one instructs others,
So should one do oneself:
Only the self-controlled should restrain others.
Truly, it's hard to restrain oneself.
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#33. Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.
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#34. Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot 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.
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#35. It is our own thoughts that lead us into trouble, not other people.
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#36. Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?
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#37. This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
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#38. No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
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#39. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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#40. Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
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#41. Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.
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#42. To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
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#43. The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
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#44. Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.
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#46. One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
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#47. The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?
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#48. If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.
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#49. If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.
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#50. You don't gather the beauty of a flower by plucking her petals.
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#52. Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.
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#54. Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!
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#55. With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
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#56. The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering
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#57. How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.
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#58. Treat others with respect. How you treat others will be how they treat you.
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#59. To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
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#60. No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.
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#61. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
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#62. I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.
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#63. All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
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#64. From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
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#65. Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it
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#66. The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.
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#67. Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.
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#68. True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
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#69. He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
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#70. If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
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#71. Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
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#72. Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
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#73. The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions
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#74. True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.
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#75. Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
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#76. Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
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#78. The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all.
The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all.
The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it.
The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.
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#79. It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.
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#80. Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.
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#81. Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.
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#82. Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
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#83. Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.
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#84. The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.
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#85. There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?
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#86. It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
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#87. The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.
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#88. Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.
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#89. Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.
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#90. Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come ...
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#91. Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
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#92. Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.
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#93. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
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#95. Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
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#96. Craving and desire are the cause of all unhappiness. Everything sooner or later must change, so do not become attached to anything. Instead devote ...
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#97. How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?
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#98. May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.
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#99. If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
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#100. As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.
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