Quotes from Gautama Buddha

You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.

Let a man overcome anger by love.

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

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

It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.