Top 20: Quotes by Buddha

Gautama Buddha (c. 486 BCE to 400 BCE ) was born in India as Prince Siddhārtha and became a spiritual teacher on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. After a life of luxury, he started austere meditation in an attempt to find the secret of life and death and observed long fasts. He finally achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi tree at Gaya and became the ‘Buddha’ the enlightened one.

Below are some of the best Quotes by Buddha.

With our thoughts we make the world.

Our life is a creation of our mind.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.

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.

In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

You only lose what you cling to.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

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