Quotes on Buddhist

Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

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 conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.

We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life ... have been my mother - for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to conform to the doctrines of a Buddhist orthodoxy. Individuation is a process of recovering personal authority through freeing ourselves from the constraints of collectively held belief systems.