Real Buddhist Quotes

#1. Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#2. 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

#3. Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.

Krista Tippett

#4. Instead of an elegant warning, you need to bring a strong deal. That's the only way you'll gain what you want.

Jay Park

#5. The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present; and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.

Gautama Buddha

#7. If you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont.

Harry Cohn

#8. Of all the judgments that we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves, for that judgment touches the very center of our existence. ... No significant aspect of our thinking, motivation, feelings, or behavior is unaffected by our self-evaluation ... .

Melody Beattie

#9. What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Thomas Sprat

#10. Once you give in to Buddhist beliefs, it is hard to feel emotions such as rage and sadness because nothing is real.

Cindy Hope

#11. Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.

Gary Zukav

#12. Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.

Dalai Lama

#13. Real Buddhism is about meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#14. In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

Brad Meltzer

#15. When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

Patch Adams

#16. It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

Gautama Buddha

#17. This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

Albert Ellis

#18. Look right through me, look right through me.

Gary Jules

#19. The United States now imprisons more people16 for drug offenses than Western European nations imprison for all crimes combined. No human society has ever before imprisoned this high a proportion of its population.

Johann Hari

#20. Jackson plays a broken guitar because he's in love with it, and doesn't want to fix it, I think. It's so broken.

Nikki Reed

#21. A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Alan W. Watts

#22. From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

Richard Gere

#23. When we do get a little time off, I tend to watch movies, go to dinners, and keep it low-key.

Nina Dobrev

#24. Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

Gautama Buddha

#25. If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

Tony Fadell

#26. A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.

Swami Vivekananda