Quotes from Gautama Buddha

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

You are what you think about.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

It is better to travel, than to arrive

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.

Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.