Quotes from Gautama Buddha

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.

You are all the Buddha.

Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.

Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare

There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

Remember that the only constant in life is change.

This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

Our life is a creation of our mind.

To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

In compassion lies the world's true strength.