Buddha
Quotes
The founder of Buddhism, he attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree and spent his life teaching the path to liberation from suffering. His teachings, known as the Dharma, outline the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path as a guide to achieving Nirvana. Emphasizing mindfulness, ethical conduct, and wisdom, his philosophy advocates for a Middle Way between self-indulgence and self-mortification. His profound influence continues to shape spiritual practice and ethical conduct across various cultures.
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.
And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.
There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?
And more importantly - what we have chosen to do
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.
Remember that the only constant in life is change.
Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.
Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little.
The darkest night is ignorance.
Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.
My whole life, I never spoke a single word.
Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.
To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.
Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.
A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
