Buddha Craving Quotes

#1. When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

Gautama Buddha

#2. To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

Gautama Buddha

#3. If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

Frank Gaffney

#4. Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."

Gautama Buddha

#5. Craving and desire are the cause of all unhappiness. Everything sooner or later must change, so do not become attached to anything. Instead devote ...

Gautama Buddha

#6. I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Kevin McCloud

#7. Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.

Gautama Buddha

#8. Thank people who help you because they make you happy. Thank people who don't help you because they make you strong.

Udai Yadla

#9. Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

Gautama Buddha

#10. From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

Gautama Buddha

#11. From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

Gautama Buddha

#12. He remembered something else about those high school days wishing he could cut straight to that first kiss to get it out of the way. Partly to get rid of the suspense, knowing the moment was hours away. Partly because he just plain wanted to kiss her.

Sierra Donovan

#13. Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Remy De Gourmont

#14. Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

Gautama Buddha

#15. The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

Tara Brach

#16. In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.

Gautama Buddha

#17. Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent ... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Alan Watts

#18. The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire."-Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle

#19. It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.

Gautama Buddha

#20. Sensual craving gives rise to grief;
Sensual craving gives rise to fear.
For someone released from sensual craving
There is no grief;
And from where would be fear?

Gautama Buddha

#21. Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.

Gautama Buddha

#22. All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.

Gautama Buddha

#23. 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.

Gautama Buddha