Gautama Buddha Quotes About Wise Buddhist
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.
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Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else
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However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
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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.
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Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
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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.
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Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
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Doubt everything. Find your own light.
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.
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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. 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.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
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If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
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Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.
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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
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The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
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