Lessons to Learn from Buddha Quotes

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Here's a beautiful collection of Buddha quotes to give you a glimpse of this great and remarkable spiritual teacher's teachings. Let the wisdom of the Buddha light up your journey of life.

Born as Prince Siddhartha Gautama, Gautama Buddha was believed to live approximately between 563 BCE and 483 BCE. He attained enlightenment at the age of 35 while he was sitting under the Bodhi tree.

From then now, Gautama Buddha was known as "The Perfectly Self-Awakened One".

I studied Buddhism as a subject in school fifteen years ago. However, I admit that I was too young then or rather not ready at that time, to really appreciate or apply Buddha's teachings to my life.

Recently, somehow his name started to appear in the some of the spiritual books that I've been reading. Once again, I chanced upon some of his teachings and this time, they make sense to me. In fact, I began to see that his teachings hold great wisdom and are applicable to our daily lives.

May you bask in the wisdom of this great and splendid spiritual teacher!

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
-- Buddha

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
-- Buddha

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
-- Buddha

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.
-- Buddha

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.
-- Buddha

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.
-- Buddha

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
-- Buddha

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
-- Buddha

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
-- 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.
-- Buddha

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
-- Buddha

Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
-- Buddha

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
-- Buddha

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
-- Buddha

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
-- Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
-- Buddha

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
-- Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.
-- Buddha

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
-- Buddha

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
-- Buddha

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.
-- Buddha

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
-- Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
-- Buddha

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
-- Buddha

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-- Buddha

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
-- Buddha

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