Buddha Quotes

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

Respect for mother and father is good, generosity to friends, acquaintances, relatives, Brahmans and ascetics is good, not killing living beings is good, moderation in spending and moderation in saving is good.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?