Quotes from Gautama Buddha

Live joyfully, without desire.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

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

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.

There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom.