Top 100 Buddha Life Quotes
#1. As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.
Susan Jeffers
#2. According to the Buddha, life is available only in the here and now, the present moment. He said, "The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment." If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#3. To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
Bodhidharma
#4. Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha
Deena B. Chopra
#5. Education is the best weapon to fight against the adversity of life.
Debasish Mridha
#6. He was lonely. I could see that. He was working his butt off-and mine, too-in the hope that a million rupees might sort out his sex life. I prayed to Buddha he would be successful. If he didn't get some action soon, I doubted I would, either.
Frank Kusy
#7. Buddha, tends to suggest a different solution: Wanting is the cause of all human misery. Learn to want less. Accept that life is painful. Face the existential emptiness that is an essential part of our nature.
Anonymous
#8. Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.
Reb Anderson
#9. It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#10. There is no need to choose. Why not live choicelessly? Why not live all that life makes available to you? Don't be a spiritualist and don't be a materialist: be both. Don't be a Zorba and don't be a Buddha; be both: Zorba the Buddha. Enjoy all that God has showered on you. That's
Osho
#12. When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment.
Surya Das
#13. Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. "The Buddha teaches respect for all life." "Oh." She considered this. "Are you a Buddhist?" "No. I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.
Scott Hawkins
#14. This moment is the most important and beautiful moment of your life. Live it, love it, and enjoy it!
Debasish Mridha
#15. Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.
Paul Fleischman
#16. The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.
Ron Starbuck
#17. Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.
Frederick Lenz
#18. The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. Be courageous! First win the fear of failure to win the game of life.
Debasish Mridha
#20. I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full of uncertainties. It still is. My "Buddha book" expresses that. Perhaps that's what created this impression of earnestness.
Pankaj Mishra
#21. Your silence holds the mysterious and beautiful secrets of your life. Feel it, love it, adore it, live it, and enjoy it.
Debasish Mridha
#22. Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#23. Be a true romantic. Always ruminate about the true beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#24. The more you know, the more you will be able to appreciate the beauty of life and your heart will desire to learn.
Debasish Mridha
#25. The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.
Robert M. Pirsig
#26. I am filling my life with an abundance of love every day and in every way so that I can give it away.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
Gautama Buddha
#29. With your spare time and money, make a difference for those who can't afford a life.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
William Butler Yeats
#31. Knowledge is the most essential ingredient of life, and it comes from curiosity.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#33. [Forster] quotes approvingly from this discussion, from The Magic Flute [by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]
"Lord Buddha was your gospel true?"
"True and False."
"What was true in it?"
"Selflessness and Love."
"What false?"
"Flight from Life.
Zadie Smith
#34. A hug everyday mixed with just four sweet letters makes life joyful.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Yo, man," he said. "You got, like, half a dog hanging off your back bumper."
"Do I?"
"Yeah. Did you drive over it? On purpose, like?"
"No. The Buddha teaches respect for all life." Then, under his breath. "I guess I did shoot a couple though.
Scott Hawkins
#36. I may not believe in magic, but I know words have the magical power to change a person or a life in a second.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Embrace nothing:
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill your father.
Only live your life as it is,
Not bound to anything.
Gautama Siddharta
#38. Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
Henepola Gunaratana
#39. Because God the Sonnets is made of the energy of the Holy Spirit, He is the door for us to enter the Kingdom of Heaven...The Buddha is also described as a door, a teacher, who shows us the way in this life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#40. A life of both sadness and blissfulness is multi-dimensional; it moves in all dimensions together. Watch the statue of Buddha or sometimes look into my eyes and you will find both together - a blissfulness, a peace, a sadness also.
Rajneesh
#41. Life is to be experienced in totality. Try not to blame others like spouse, parents, friends, fellow beings or situations for any suffering.. Never allow your vibe to go to a lower level. This way you will attract more and more positive circumstances in your life.
Sakshi Chetana
#42. The biggest and grandest adventure in life is life itself.
Debasish Mridha
#43. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Gautama Buddha
#44. When you have had nothing most of your life, you learn to appreciate the small things in life. The real challenge is appreciating the small things in life as you start to acquire material things and amassing wealth.
Jim Robinson
James Morris Robinson
#45. A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.
Osho
#46. In Buddhism we also interprete Dharma to mean 'cessation,' as in the end of dissatisfaction, the end of dukkha. This is the purpose of Buddha's teachings.
David Michie
#47. Ah! Such a beautiful morning! Let us be the sunshine in someone's life and fill her heart with untold joy.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Your attitude towards life will define your altitude of success.
Debasish Mridha
#49. In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.
Dermot Davis
#51. Therefore, what you do as a spiritual practitioner in this life shapes that. To seek and find this beautiful, continuing existence, where there can be more progress towards Buddha-hood, toward love, and wisdom, and helping all being etc. So that's the great value of it.
Robert Thurman
#52. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
Gautama Buddha
#53. Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself
Stephen Levine
#54. Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.
Dalai Lama XIV
#55. Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. It is through the heart that the Lord is seen, and not through the intellect.
Swami Vivekananda
#56. The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.
Dalai Lama
#57. The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Always be excited about your life. Try to find and create beauty in and around you. Give away your love and smiles as much as you can. Be content and happy with what you have.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
Andrew Lang
#62. Life is a journey. If you can't walk, journey with your thoughts and imaginations.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Life is an incredible adventure into the mysterious unknown future.
Debasish Mridha
#64. The currency of a happy life is not money, but it is pure love.
Debasish Mridha
#65. You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful, but still sad. The very word sad gives you wrong connotations - that something is wrong. This is your interpretation. To me, life in its totality is good.
Rajneesh
#66. Kindness is the ultimate essence of life; compassion is the ultimate evidence of love.
Debasish Mridha
#67. My battle weapons in life are very simple; my weapons are love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Buddha, Confucius, or Socrates can bring us good teaching, moral excellence, and religious philosophy. For this they may be commended as rendering help and aid to humanity. But Jesus Christ is different: He brings us Himself as our Life.
Chip Brogden
#69. Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life.
Debasish Mridha
#70. Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.
Jeanne M. Lee
#71. If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
#72. When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#73. I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.
Debasish Mridha
#74. The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.
Rajneesh
#75. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#76. A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.
Debasish Mridha
#77. All that matters in life is that you are happy with where you are, what you are, and with whom you are. Everything around you will be happy and smile with you. If that isn't success, then what is?
Debasish Mridha
#78. Where Eckhart Tolle meets Jack Kerouac meets Buddha. A free consciousness expanding book to kill Ego, sexual boredom & lack of excitement in life.
Gregor Reti
#79. In order to create a positive life, you have to have a positive vision and take creative actions.
Debasish Mridha
#80. There exist three poisons in life: desire, anger, and ignorance. One poison is the root of the other two. To attain enlightenment, you must swallow the root of your poisons, so that you die. You die many times to attain the enlightenment of Buddha.
H.S. Kim
#81. If he really wanted to be happy in the world, Horst? To have any kind of joyful or happy life? He should pay twenty grand to go back to his rapid detox place and then come here and smoke Buddha Haze and stand in a museum all day long.
Donna Tartt
#82. Life is like a snowflake - transient, translucent, adventurous, ephemeral, and beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#83. Ah! Summer is here. Celebrate the lights, dance with the blooming flowers, swim with the heart touching waves, sing under the dreamy starlight, dance with the winds, fall in love with the blue sky and the simple joys of life.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Everyone comes to this world with one great purpose. That is to serve others.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Knowing how to love unconditionally is the ultimate knowledge of life.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Tara Brach
#87. To find joy in life, it is our responsibility and duty to love and serve others.
Debasish Mridha
#88. You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.
Neil Peart
#89. Life is an amazingly mysterious and interesting game. To win, you have to play with the magical powers of love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#90. What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. - BUDDHA
Jonathan Haidt
#91. Life is beautiful for those who take the risk to love and take the adventure to enjoy life.
Debasish Mridha
#92. On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw
A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw,
A Buddha, hand at rest,
Hand lifted up that blest;
And right between these two a girl at play
That, it may be, had danced her life away ...
William Butler Yeats
#93. In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.
Dalai Lama
#94. ALWAYS BE HAPPY IS NOT IMPORTANT , WHAT IMPORTANT IS TO FIGHT THE STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES US HAPPY OR UNHAPPY !!
Tushar Upreti
#95. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.
Pema Chodron
#96. I am deeply in love with the world and its contents. My heartaches when I see any suffering so kindness and altruism is my ultimate way of life.
Debasish Mridha
#98. To add value to your life, serve others with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#99. The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.
Narendra Modi
#100. We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?
Rohan Perera
