Buddhism Quotes

"A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily." "May all beings have happy minds." "Not by rituals and resolutions, nor by much learning, nor by celibacy, nor even by meditation can you find the supreme, immortal joy of nirvana until you extinguish your self-will." "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." "All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill." "The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." "Here are some additional quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh:" "As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is." "If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever" "We have to live our life as a Buddha fully. Each human being has a Buddha nature. Buddhist monks practice in order to be a fully awakened human being." "Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible." "When you are a truly happy Buddhist, you are also a Christian, to the extent that you acknowledge its value and consider it yours."