49 Buddha Quotes for You to Enjoy

Buddha

Leader

Died: 483 BC

Good Life Mind Only World You

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

Life Pure Own Nothing Live Must Count Unselfish Abundance Midst

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness. Buddha

Obedience Righteousness Better Laws Than Gods

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha

Truth Anger Ourselves Striving Instant Feel Begun Controversy

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. Buddha

Wisdom Time World Will Men Leader First Master Universe Earth Angels Shall Arise Buddha Mortals Knowing Supremely Another Am Due Came Nor Conduct Endowed Holy Who Incomparable Enlightened Last

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Buddha

Thoughts World Think Our Arises Make

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world. Buddha

Truth World King Born Salvation

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain? Buddha

Mind Remain Arises Wrong-Doing Because Transformed

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

Good Wicked Virtue More Persecuted Than Loved

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. Buddha

Chaos Diligence Strive Inherent Things

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart. Buddha

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. Buddha

Binary Unity Only Idea Itself Manifested Two

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain. Buddha

A jug fills drop by drop. Buddha

Drop Jug Fills

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana. Buddha

Man Illusion Evil Bitterness Free Lust Righteous Nirvana Out Gives Shall Casts He Reach Himself Real Passions Cease Off Gain Rooting Who Away Slave

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits. Buddha

Good Charity Soil Tyrannical Those Bad Worthy Seed Bestowed Given Abundance Alms Merits Like Were Passions Yields Yoke Sown Fruits Choke Who Growth Receiver

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. Buddha

Good Fear Listening Evil Free Feeling Feelings Appreciates Pleasure Finds Feels Tranquil Dislike Them Teachings

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. Buddha

Wise Thought Sieve Through Grain Speech

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? Buddha

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Buddha

Fate Men Believe Unless However Falls Them Act

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana. Buddha

Determination Path Walks Nirvana He Noble Reach Sure Who

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood. Buddha

Alone Broken Ignorance First Live Universe Those Exalted Most Obtained Were Up Egg Confined Who Beings Shut Shut Up Universal

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