Quotes from Gautama Buddha

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.

A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten.