Quotes from Gautama Buddha

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.

Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.