Buddhist Inspirational Quotes

#1. Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.

Gautama Buddha

#2. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Gautama Buddha

#3. 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

#4. The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

Suman Jyoty Bhante

#5. By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.

Gautama Buddha

#6. One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Gautama Buddha

#7. The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

Gautama Buddha

#8. The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.

Dalai Lama

#9. Pain does not differentiate between rich and poor or Christian and Buddhist. It brings the same feelings to everyone.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Tara Brach