More Gautama Buddha Quotes And Teachings

by allinspiration.com

Here is another collection of Gautama Buddha quotes and sayings. There is much we can learn about life from this great spiritual teacher.

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
– Gautama 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?”
– Gautama Buddha

“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.”
– Gautama Buddha

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
– Gautama Buddha

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
– Gautama Buddha

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Gautama Buddha

“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.”
– Gautama Buddha

“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.”
– Gautama Buddha

“You only lose what you cling to.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”
– Gautama Buddha

“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.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
– Gautama 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.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Gautama Buddha

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”
– Gautama Buddha

“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.”
– Gautama Buddha

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
– Gautama Buddha

“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.”
– Gautama Buddha

“What we think, we become.”
– Gautama Buddha

“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
– Gautama Buddha

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”
– Gautama Buddha

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
– Gautama Buddha

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
– Gautama Buddha

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
– Gautama Buddha

“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Pain is certain, suffering is optional.”
– Gautama Buddha

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. ”
– Gautama Buddha

“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.”
– Gautama Buddha

“As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all. ”
– Gautama Buddha

“The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.”
– Gautama Buddha

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