Buddhist Sayings
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama 
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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.
- The Buddha
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
He is able who thinks he is able.
- The Buddha
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
A jug fills drop by drop.
- The Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Work out your own salvation.
Do not depend on others.
- The Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
The ultimate authority must always rest
with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
- The Buddha
There has to be evil so that
good can prove its purity above it.
- The Buddha
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