Inspiring Buddhist Sayings, Mostly From Buddha Himself

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“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”
– Buddha

“Fill your mind with compassion.”
– Buddha

“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.”
– Buddha

“Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.”
– Buddha

“Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.”
– Buddha

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

“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
– Buddha

“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
– Buddha

“He is able who thinks he is able.”
– Buddha

“He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
– Buddha

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”
– Buddha

“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”
– Buddha

“He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.”
– Buddha

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
– Buddha

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; YOU are the one getting burned.”
– Buddha

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

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
– Buddha

“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
– Buddha

“I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.”
– Buddha

“I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.” One of his students asked Buddha, “Are you the messiah?” “No”, answered Buddha. “Then are you a healer?” “No”, Buddha replied. “Then are you a teacher?” the student persisted. “No, I am not a teacher.” “Then what are you?” asked the student, exasperated. “I am awake”, Buddha replied. “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.”
– Buddha

“If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.”
– Buddha

“If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.”
– Buddha

“If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.”
– Buddha

“If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.”
– Buddha

“If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.”
– Buddha

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion; if you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
– Buddha

“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”
– Buddha

“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true. ”
– Buddha

“It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible. For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.”
– Buddha

“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.”
– Buddha

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