Buddha Quotes
"Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.""The root of suffering is attachment.""In a war of ego, the loser always wins""If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.""The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.""If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.""Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.""Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.""Nothing is forever except change.""It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one’s own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.""There is no fire like passion. There is no shark like hatred. There is no snare like folly. There is no torrent like greed.""The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.""There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.""All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.""Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.""Everything in moderation, including moderation.""A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing.""Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.""Meditate. Do not delay, lest you later regret it.""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."
