List of Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni Quotes

These... Things, Householder, Are Welcome, Agreeable, Pleasant, & Hard To Obtain In The World: Long Life Is Welcome, Agreeable, Pleasant, & Hard To Obtain In The World. Beauty Is Welcome, Agreeable, Pleasant, & Hard To Obtain In The World. Happiness Is Welcome, Agreeable, Pleasant, & Hard To Obtain In The World. Status Is Welcome, Agreeable, Pleasant, & Hard To Obtain In The World. ...Now, I Tell You, These... Things Are Not To Be Obtained By Reason Of Prayers Or Wishes. If They Were To Be Obtained By Reason Of Prayers Or Wishes, Who Here Would Lack Them? It's Not Fitting For The Disciple Of The Noble Ones Who Desires Long Life To Pray For It Or To Delight In Doing So. Instead, The Disciple Of The Noble Ones Who Desires Long Life Should Follow The Path Of Practice Leading To Long Life. In So Doing, He Will Attain Long Life...

Nothing Can Harm You As Much As Your Own Thoughts Unguarded.

Words Do Not Express Thoughts Very Well; Every Thing Immediately Becomes A Little Different, A Little Distorted, A Little Foolish. And Yet It Also Pleases Me And Seems Right That What Is Of Value And Wisdom Of One Man Seems Nonsense To Another.

Whatever A Monk Keeps Pursuing With His Thinking And Pondering, That Becomes The Inclination Of His Awareness.

Meditate. Live Purely. Be Quiet. Do Your Work With Mastery. Like The Moon, Come Out From Behind The Clouds! Shine

If We Could See The Miracle Of A Single Flower Clearly Our Whole Life Would Change.

Do Not Look For A Sanctuary In Anyone Except Your Self.

An Insincere And Evil Friend Is More To Be Feared Than A Wild Beast; A Wild Beast May Wound Your Body, But An Evil Friend Will Wound Your Mind.

It Is Like A Lighted Torch Whose Flame Can Be Distributed To Ever So Many Other Torches Which People May Bring Along; And Therewith They Will Cook Food And Dispel Darkness, While The Original Torch Itself Remains Burning Ever The Same. It Is Even So With The Bliss Of The Way.

Now, Kalamas, Don’t Go By Reports, By Legends, By Traditions, By Scripture, By Logical Conjecture, By Inference, By Analogies, By Agreement Through Pondering Views, By Probability, Or By The Thought, ‘This Contemplative Is Our Teacher.’ When You Know For Yourselves That, ‘These Qualities Are Skillful; These Qualities Are Blameless; These Qualities Are Praised By The Wise; These Qualities, When Adopted & Carried Out, Lead To Welfare & To Happiness’ — Then You Should Enter & Remain In Them

If You Do Not Change Direction, You May End Up Where You Are Heading

Greater In Battle Than The Man Who Would Conquer A Thousand-thousand Men, Is He Who Would Conquer Just One — Himself. Better To Conquer Yourself Than Others. When You've Trained Yourself, Living In Constant Self-control, Neither A Deva Nor Gandhabba, Nor A Mara Banded With Brahmas, Could Turn That Triumph Back Into Defeat.