Quotes About Dhamma

#1. If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.

Ajahn Chah

#2. The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.

Ajahn Chah

#3. There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.

Gautama Buddha

#4. Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

Gautama Buddha

#5. If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

Ajahn Chah

#6. The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.

Gautama Buddha

#7. Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#8. The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

S. N. Goenka

#9. The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.

Ajahn Chah

#10. Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.

Anagarika Dharmapala

#11. Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails that one embrace this world in all its contingency and specificity, with all its ambiguity and flaws.

Stephen Batchelor

#12. To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

Ajahn Chah

#13. As electricity is made up of positive and negative current - so is human life a system of attraction and repulsion. - Turn off the current if you want quiet. - Yes, but where is the switch?

Nanamoli Thera

#14. On the mantelpiece, the photograph of a chimpanzee and a statuette of the Buddha. This proximity, more accidental than intentional, makes me wonder over and over where my place might be between these two extrems, man's pre and transfiguration.

Cioran

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

Suman Jyoty Bhante

#16. Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#17. Lead only if no one is following.

Marty Rubin

#18. Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

Lance Armstrong

#19. If I thought there was even a single shred of a chance you'd still be alive, then I would have destroyed the entire world to find you. You're my brother. I love you. Please understand that none of what happened was within either of our power to change.

L. H. Cosway

#20. Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

William Pitt

#21. I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#22. I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

Daniel Keyes

#23. Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.

David Filo

#24. Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

#25. It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.

Nanamoli Thera