Quotes from Buddha

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

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

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

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truthnot going all the way, and not starting.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

We are shaped by our THOUGHTS.. We become what we THINK.. When the mind is PURE, JOY follows like a SHADOW that never leaves.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

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.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (languor), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in the river Ganges ; and suppose that someone else, after taking from this discourse on dharma but one stanza of four lines.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love