Buddhist Giving Quotes

#1. Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others.

Shantideva

#2. I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

Laurie Anderson

#3. Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.

Gautama Buddha

#4. We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

Gautama Buddha

#5. He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

Gautama Buddha

#6. For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind.

Gautama Buddha

#7. Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.

Gautama Buddha

#8. That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.

B.R. Ambedkar

#9. For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.

Gautama Buddha

#10. Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

Gautama Buddha