Welcome to Buddha Quotes & Wisdom
"Every Living Being Has The Same Basic Wish." |
Every living being has the same basic wish – to be happy and to avoid suffering. Even newborn babies, animals, and insects have this wish. It has been our main wish since beginning less time and it is with us all the time, even during our sleep. -Buddha Quotes & Wisdom- 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. -Buddha Quotes & Wisdom- |
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Buddha Quotes on Happiness & Life
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Pain is certain, suffering is optional.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“People with opinions just go around bothering one another.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“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.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“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.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Give, even if you only have a little.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“A disciplined mind brings happiness.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range?”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“How could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range?”
“Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Over there are the roots of trees; over there, empty dwellings. Practice jhana [meditation], monks. Don’t be heedless. Don’t later fall into regret. This is our message to you.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“May all beings have happy minds.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads, — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: ‘Certainly, this is not the Blessed One’s utterance’“
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Having gone on his alms round, the sage should then go to the forest, standing or taking a seat at the foot of a tree. The enlightened one, intent on jhana, should find delight in the forest, should practice jhana at the foot of a tree, attaining his own satisfaction.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.’ Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill’.”
--Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“See them, floundering in their sense of mine, like fish in the puddles of a dried-up stream — and, seeing this, live with no mine, not forming attachment to experiences.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.”
--Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.” ,
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The root of suffering is attachment.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.”
“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”
-Buddha Quotes & Wisdom-
“The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what’s pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.”
-Buddha Quotes & Wisdom-
“Whoever doesn’t flare up at someone who’s angry wins a battle hard to win.”
“Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”
-Buddha Quotes & Wisdom-
“Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Pain is certain, suffering is optional.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“People with opinions just go around bothering one another.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“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.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“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.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Give, even if you only have a little.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“A disciplined mind brings happiness.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range?”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“How could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range?”
“Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Over there are the roots of trees; over there, empty dwellings. Practice jhana [meditation], monks. Don’t be heedless. Don’t later fall into regret. This is our message to you.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“May all beings have happy minds.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads, — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: ‘Certainly, this is not the Blessed One’s utterance’“
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Having gone on his alms round, the sage should then go to the forest, standing or taking a seat at the foot of a tree. The enlightened one, intent on jhana, should find delight in the forest, should practice jhana at the foot of a tree, attaining his own satisfaction.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.’ Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill’.”
--Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“See them, floundering in their sense of mine, like fish in the puddles of a dried-up stream — and, seeing this, live with no mine, not forming attachment to experiences.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.”
--Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.” ,
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“The root of suffering is attachment.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.”
“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”
-Buddha Quotes & Wisdom-
“The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what’s pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.”
-Buddha Quotes & Wisdom-
“Whoever doesn’t flare up at someone who’s angry wins a battle hard to win.”
“Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”
-Buddha Quotes & Wisdom-
“Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-
“Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.”
-Buddha Quotes on happiness & life-