Buddha Quotes

Here is a smart and ancient thoughts about good life, health and prosperity. Buddha means “awakened one” or “the enlightened one.”

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
• The mind is everything
  What you think you become.
• Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings
• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think
  When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
• No one saves us but ourselves
  No one can and no one may
  We ourselves must walk the path.
• There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
• There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
• The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
• You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.
• Peace comes from within
  Do not seek it without.
• If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
• If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.
• In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.
• There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
• You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
• The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
• Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
• Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened
  Happiness never decreases by being shared.
• All wrong-doing arises because of mind
  If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
• To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
• Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
• Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
• People with opinions just go around bothering one another.
• One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.
• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
• Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time
  Hatred ceases through love
  This is an unalterable law.
• Every morning we are born again
  What we do today is what matters most.
• Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
• It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
• Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind
  To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
• With fools, there is no companionship
  Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
• However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
• It is better to travel well than to arrive.
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
• It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
• Give, even if you only have a little.
• Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.
• Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.
• Meditate - do not delay, lest you later regret it.
• One is not called noble who harms living beings
  By not harming living beings one is called noble.
• A disciplined mind brings happiness.
• I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.
• The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range.