Quotes By Buddha

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.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.