Top 60 Buddhism Peace Quotes
#1. Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.
Daisaku Ikeda
#2. Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#3. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Gautama Buddha
#4. Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.
Daisaku Ikeda
#5. By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
Sharon Salzberg
#6. It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#7. We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation.
Alaric Hutchinson
#8. When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your life. Difficulties will not seem unconquerable.
Frederick Lenz
#9. We have to be in the present time, because only the present is real, only in the present can we be alive. We do not practice for the sake of the future, to be reborn in a paradise, but to be peace, to be compassion, to be joy right now.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#10. Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king, a queen, anything. It does not necessarily bring happiness or peace of mind. It comes about through following dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#11. It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
Mike Norton
#12. Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.
Matthieu Ricard
#13. I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Maybe it's something which can't be defined," Enso Roshi says. "Maybe it's a question, to be lived.
T. Scott McLeod
#15. Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
Matthieu Ricard
#17. I've tried a number of religions and gurus in my time, including Buddhism, but ultimately they didn't do as much for my peace of mind as snooker.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
#18. When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.
Frederick Lenz
#19. The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.
Allan Lokos
#20. The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#21. All of us have to ensure that our future generations lead a life of peace, dignity and mutual respect. We need to sow the seeds of a conflict-free world, and in this endeavour, Buddhism and Hinduism have a great contribution.
Narendra Modi
#22. Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#23. A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#24. Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.
Frederick Lenz
#25. Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#26. To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves - and each other.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#28. Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
Daisaku Ikeda
#29. If you wish to have children, please do something for the world you will bring them into. That will make you someone who works for peace, in one way or another.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#30. Live in joy, in love,
even among those who hate.
Live in joy, in health,
even among the afflicted.
Live in joy, in peace,
even among the troubled.
Look within, be still.
Free from fear and attachment,
know the sweet joy of the way.
Gautama Buddha
#31. The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.
Allan Lokos
#32. The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.
Josei Toda
#34. Well Buddhism, 'shmoodism', I didn't go to India looking for Buddhism. I was looking for truth, or God, or a better way of life or happiness, fulfillment, meaning, purpose. And a way to become peace in the world and not just fight for peace, as we had in the 60's.
Surya Das
#35. Inner peace doesn't have to be religious, spiritual, or impossible. It simply means you think and act with clarity and compassion--no longer conquered by the storms of the mind.
Janice Anderson
#36. We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.
Allan Lokos
#37. Many people think excitement is happiness ... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#38. When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Impartial, compassionate, brave, and understanding ... these are the traits that come with putting the Noble Eightfold Path into practice. By following this path, anyone can become the kind of leader the Buddha hoped to see - a leader of peace.
Victoria Stoklasa
#40. Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.
Frederick Lenz
#41. A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda
#42. And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.
Hermann Hesse
#44. Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it's a shell. It's like, they go from one shell to the next. And that's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.
Danny McBride
#45. If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.
Frederick Lenz
#46. You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
T. Scott McLeod
#47. Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires.
Peter Sagal
#48. What creates happiness, peace, and balance is not becoming simply powerful, but knowledgeable.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.
Allan Lokos
#50. When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.
Frederick Lenz
#51. When we sit in meditation, we are closer than usual to the world as it is. By simply bringing body, breath, and mind together in the present moment, we touch Buddha; we touch reality, and we are in the world as it is. Most people's experience in this state is peaceful and rejuvenating.
Andrew Furst
#52. Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.
Shinmon Aoki
#53. It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
Daisaku Ikeda
#54. It is the rub that polishes the jewel," Enso Roshi says. "Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.
T. Scott McLeod
#55. The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening - often rude awakening.
Jay Michaelson
#56. Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
Dalai Lama XIV
#57. Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
Daisaku Ikeda
#58. Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience.
Allan Lokos
#59. Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances.
Allan Lokos
#60. When you think of Buddhism, you're likely to think of peace and tranquility.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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