Gautama Buddha
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.Collection: Effort
Want what you have and you will always get what you want.Collection: Want
Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.Collection: Listening
Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.Collection: Jealous
Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.Collection: Inspirational
Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.Collection: Trying
It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today's choicesCollection: Encouragement
You only lose that which you cling to.Collection: Loses
Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.Collection: Buddhist
To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart.Collection: Spiritual
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.Collection: Positive
Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.Collection: Men
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.Collection: Love
To have everything is to possess nothing.Collection: Awareness
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.Collection: Buddhist
We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.Collection: Buddhist
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.Collection: Gratitude
There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.Collection: Thinking
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.Collection: Buddhist
Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.Collection: Silence
It is your mind that creates the world.Collection: Mind
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Buddhist
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.Collection: Gratitude
Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.Collection: Thoughtful
Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.Collection: Expression
A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.Collection: Life
Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.Collection: Buddhist
It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.Collection: Animal
A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.Collection: Buddhist
One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.Collection: Wise
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.Collection: Men
May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.Collection: Yoga
If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.Collection: Strong
Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?Collection: Buddhist
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. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.Collection: Meditation
How deeply did you learn to let go?Collection: Letting Go
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!Collection: Sweet
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.Collection: Success
Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.Collection: Happiness
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.Collection: Elephants
War ends only when people love each other.Collection: War
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.Collection: Positive
Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.Collection: Kindness
Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.Collection: Lying
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.Collection: Anger
O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.Collection: Understanding
Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.Collection: Real