Buddha Quotes
"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.""He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest.""It is better to travel well than to arrive.""I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.""Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.""My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.""It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.""Nothing is forever except change.""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.""All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.""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.""The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.""There is no fire like passion. There is no shark like hatred. There is no snare like folly. There is no torrent like greed.""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.""If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.""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.""Everything in moderation, including moderation.""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."