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50 Significant Buddha Quotes

We listed best quotes about Buddha and Buddhism on life and karma

1. “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.” -Buddha

2. “A disciplined mind brings happiness.” -Buddha

3. “Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.” -Buddha

4. “In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.” -Buddha

5. “Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.” -Buddha

6. “All conditioned things are impermanent—when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.” -Buddha

7. “Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.” -Buddha

8. “The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.” -Buddha

9. “Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.” -Buddha

10. “Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.” -Buddha

11. “He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.” -Buddha

12. “Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.” -Buddha

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13. “Live with no sense of ‘mine,’ not forming attachment to experiences.” -Buddha

14. “Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.” -Buddha

15. “Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.”-Buddha

16. “Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.”-Buddha

17. “Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.”-Buddha

18. “It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.”-Buddha

19. “All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.”-Buddha

20. “Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”-Buddha

21. “All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”-Buddha

22. “If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.”-Buddha

23. “Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit.”-Buddha

24. “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?”-Buddha

25. “Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.”-Buddha

26. “Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing.”-Buddha

27. “As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.”-Buddha

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28. “I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.”-Buddha

29. “As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I. Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.”-Buddha

30. “Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.”-Buddha

31. “We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis…”-Buddha

32. “There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.”-Buddha

33. “Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.”-Buddha

34. “To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing.”-Buddha

35. “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.”-Buddha

36. “The root of suffering is attachment.”-Buddha

37. “Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.”-Buddha

38. “As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.”-Buddha

39. “All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”-Buddha

40. “They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.”-Buddha

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41“Give, even if you only have a little.”-Buddha

42. “Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.”-Buddha

43. “May all beings have happy minds.”-Buddha

44. “Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!”-Buddha

45. “Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.”-Buddha

46. “One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”-Buddha

47. “If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?”-Buddha

48. “Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.”-Buddha

49. “Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.”-Buddha

50. “Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.”-Buddha

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