The Dhammapada Quotes

#1. It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

Max Muller

#2. Better it is to live alone; there is no fellowship with a fool. Live alone and do no evil; be carefree like an elephant in the elephant forest.

Gautama Buddha

#3. The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Anonymous

#4. If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

Larry Crabb

#5. Driven by fear, people run for security to mountains and forests, to sacred spots and shrines. But none of these can be a safe refuge, because they cannot free the mind from fear. - THE DHAMMAPADA

Dennis Merritt Jones

#6. It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Look at your body - A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. - The Dhammapada

Thomas Ligotti

#8. You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.

Gautama Buddha

#9. We solve crimes, but we'll never solve crime.

Bob Deasy

#10. I shall live here in the rains,
There in winter,
Elsewhere in summer, muses the fool,
Not aware of the nearness of death.

Gautama Buddha

#11. Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)

Ananda Maitreya

#12. Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can.

Timothy Ferriss

#13. As you feel bad, and don't make any effort to change your thoughts and feel better, you are in effect saying, "Bring me more circumstances that will make me feel bad. Bring it on!

Rhonda Byrne

#14. There are those that do not realize that one day we all must die. But those that do settle their quarrels.

Dhammapada

#15. While a man desires a woman,
His mind is bound
As closely as a calf to its mother.

As you would pluck an autumn lily,
Pluck the arrow of desire.

Dhammapada

#16. Let a man overcome anger by love.

Gautama Buddha

#17. I don't care that they stole my idea . I care that they don't have any of their own

Nikola Tesla

#18. Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Gautama Buddha

#19. Meditate, he'd said. Jingo Jingo was such a joker.

Devon Monk

#20. Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

Gautama Buddha