Quotes By Buddha

Be devoted to heedfulness. Guard your mind.

Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

So long as dualism is adhered to, there is no Nirvana, no self-realisation. Light and shadow, long and short, black and white-they are mutually related; when they stand alone each by itself, they have no meaning. So with Nirvana.

Be devoted to conscientiousness. Guard your own mind.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. Work hard.