25 Quotes from Buddha That Will Change Your Life
25 Quotes From Buddha That Will Change Your Life
By Steven Bancarz
Between the 6th and 4th century BCE, a man named Siddhārtha Gautama began to turn heads in Eastern India with his profound spiritual wisdom. He was given the name “Buddha”, which literally means “The enlightened one”, and to this day we still receive tremendous insight from his teachings.
Interestingly, Buddha never actually wrote any of his teachings down. Similar to Jesus and Socrates, his method of teaching was verbal and communicative. Oral traditions kept the wisdom of the Buddha alive until 400 years after his death when the first transcript of his teachings first emerged.
His awakening occurred when he realized that you didn’t have to starve yourself and mortify your body, as was commonly practiced in India at that time to enhance spiritual clarity and wisdom. When a young girl offered him some milk and rice pudding as an action of compassion, he realized that there was more to The Way than what he had been taught.
He then meditated for 49 nine days after vowing he would not move until he found the truth. The insights that came from this still remain some of the most relevant and profound spiritual teachings of all time. Here are 25 quotes from Buddha that will change your life:
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- “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
- “The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
- “A jug fills drop by drop.”
- “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”
- “To understand everything is to forgive everything”
- “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
- “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
- “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
- “In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”
- “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.”
- “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
- “Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
- “There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
- “It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.”
- I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
- “Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
- “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
- “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
- “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.”
- “You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”
- “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
- “To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others”
- “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
- “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
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Reading these inspiring quotes again to refresh myself of the Buddha teachings. If we understand, it will change our life in long run. Change is never painful, only resistance to change ourselves is painful. By refusing to accept this change, we make it worse because we’re fighting against it, against the flow of life. One moment can change a day, one day can change a life. We should be open to change and embrace changes. By accepting the fact that nothing in the universe is permanent . We learn and practice makes improvement in our life and be thankful always.
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing.
There are still some who that teach that you must visit websites to receive wisdom. They have not yet realised that the source of wisdom is within themselves.”
Very nice, lord Buddha is not with us but his thoughts are always inspiring us to become peaceful person, and we should need to spread his messages as possible more and more in the world. And I think website is the best place to spread information all-over the world.
Million-$-Knowledge is also the platform of e-learning, have you problem then there is solution.
Powerful teachings and life changing lessons to learn from Buddha. Reading it and understand it will definitely change our life. The teachings of the Buddha are aimed solely at liberating sentient beings from suffering. All life is in a cycle of death and rebirth called samsara. To achieve this goal is to attain nirvana, an enlightened state in which the fires of greed, hatred, and ignorance have been quenched. We do believe we are in control of our ultimate fates. The problem is that most of us are ignorant of this, which causes suffering. I love reading those quotes make me think and bring a smile to my mind. Open our eyes and reading it, we will see the beauty of the Universe and the meaning behind those quotes. Learn from there is the best choice.
Thank you Rinpoche for these great teachings from BUDDHA.
Most of the Buddha’s quotes are comprehended through one or few statements, which enable us to contemplate and meditate on our mind training as all our speeches, thoughts and actions are initiated from our mind.
Do hope more people will be inspired after reading these powerful quotes and will change their lives too.Thank so much for sharing this wonderful 25 Quotes from Buddha.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing the words of Buddha to all of us. I have never felt uninterested each time I come across or reading again on Buddha’s quotes but lift my motivation higher to learn, practise, share and follow Buddha’s teachings as much as I can.
One of the Buddha’s quotes, “You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”, has further encouraged me to continue and contribute more in Buddhadharma until we are one with all the virtuous qualities such as giving, patience, moral discipline, compassion, focus, right views, right effort and many more. Once we are equipped with all the pure motivations to benefit others compassionately and selflessly, we can turn around any difficult situation into peace by sharing the Dharma teachings with real life examples, in reference from the past Buddhas, Bodhisattvas or highly attained masters.
On top of that, I understand that most of the Buddha’s quotes are comprehended through one or few statements, which enable us to contemplate and meditate on our mind training as all our speeches, thoughts and actions are initiated from our mind. When our minds are pure and free from evil thoughts, eventually we can deliver peaceful speech and produce virtuous deeds that can benefit many people and sentient beings around us.
May the teachings of Buddha reach to every corner of the world until samsara ends. May no one ever be parted from Buddhadharma. May all sentient beings able to learn and practise Buddhadharma until achieving higher attainments and eventually enlightenment.
Thank you with folded hands,
kin hoe
Each of the quotes is a teaching in itself.
It’s difficult to share with others about salvation or more so about enlightenment. Hence I find this quote to be more meaningful ~
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Thank you for sharing.
The quote : “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.”
The wisdom of the Buddha is impeccable, there is only truth in the words as it applies to every situation! How beautiful if we all heed the advice of the Buddha and make this world a better by being more mindful, less judging and more kind. Thank you for this sharing. They are wonderful quotes that everyone should read.
These quotes are powerful teachings of Lord Buddha that will inspire us to change and transform our minds . Through these quotes that teach us how to live a life of peace and harmony, we learn to let go of anger and hatred and move towards a mind of peace. The quotes show us how our minds are the architects of our happiness and suffering. We learn to take responsibility for our actions and the consequences of our actions. We learn to develop compassion, gratitude and appreciation in place of intolerance and hatred. Ultimately, we see that having conquered our ego and delusions, we will move towards a pure mind of truth; and wisdom will grow in us.
As we grind through life working daily to survive and pay for your life style, it is wonderful to read the stainless and untainted teachings of the Dharma from Buddha.
Makes samsara more bearable not that it has improved but rather our way of seeing and reacting to “things” and happenings are seen with new eyes and a mind that has changed through contemplation on the ultimate truth.
Thank you Rinpoche for giving us this cyber temple.
wow ….beautiful quotes which i do enjoyed reading and have deep thoughts about it.I have book marked so as i can read it time from time to remind myself.
Do hope more people will be inspired after reading these powerful quotes and will change their lives too.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing.