The Buddha Quotes

Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)

Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit/Devanagari: सिद्धार्थ गौतम Siddhārtha Gautama, c. 563/624 – c. 483/544 BCE) or Siddhattha Gotama in Pali,; also called the Gautama Buddha, the Shakyamuni Buddha ("Buddha, Sage of the Shakyas") or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was a monk (śramaṇa), mendicant, sage, philosopher, teacher and religious leader on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the northeastern part of ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE.

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Alternative Names: Buddha • Bhagwan Buddha • Prabudha • Munish • Lord Buddha • Sakya-muni • Shakyasimha • Devarajalu • Buddhadeva • Sakyasinha • Tathagata Buddha • Trigyesh • Siddhartha Gautama • Shakyamuni • Sakyamuni • Sugata • Fo • Shakyamuni Buddha • Khajit • Trigya • Mahatma Buddha • Gotama Buddha • Padmayani • Lokapradīpa • Gautama Buddha • Gautam Buddha

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Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Do everything with a good heart and expect nothing in return, and you will never be disappointed.

"Every day, I am thinking:
'How can I lead all living beings
to enter the unsurpassed way
so as to quickly acquire the body of a Buddha?"

(LS 16: 3.23)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 16, Section 3, Paragraph 23

Just as on a rubbish heap swept up on a main road a purely fragrant, delightful lotus might there spring up, Even so amidst those rubbish heaps (of men) does the savaka of the Perfectly Enlightened One outshine in insight the blind puthujjana

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Conquest breeds hatred, for the conquered live in sorrow. Let us be neither conqueror nor conquered, and live in peace and joy.

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

if the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

Más grande que la conquista en batalla de mil veces mil hombres es la conquista de uno mismo.

Vsetko co sme, je dosledkom je dosledkom toho, co sme si mysleli

First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words;
Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher;
Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;
And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.

الأخيار يشِعّون من البعيد مثل جبال الهملايا، لكن الأشرار لا يراهم أحد. مثل سهامٍ أطلقت في الليل.

It is better to travel, than to arrive

Be universal love- radiating towards no one object or person in particular but, like the sun, shining on everything in its path.

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