Quotes from Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.

We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

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

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.