Top Buddhist Quotes

War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the ver...

The aware do not die; The unaware are as though dead already.

Buddhist Definition

(n.) One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

A man is born to become God, and this is the principle. A rose flower is grown in a rose plant. In the same fashion whether a man knows or not, a perpetual action is running within him, how he will be...

Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men,You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.

Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act accordingYou are like a cowherd counting others' cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer's life.

From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear.If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone fear.

I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitudes or anything, and I say, like 'Japhy Ryder, equally empty, equal...

In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harmingFlower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar.

In temples you find religion, but in hearts you find God.

The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.

As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering...

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

Standing DeerAs the house of a personin age sometimes grows clutteredwith what istoo loved or too heavy to part with,the heart may grow cluttered.And still the house will be emptied,and still the hear...

Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deitiesAnd you will be able to compose your own tune.Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously,Singing 'tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum.

As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.

God is not Christian.God is not Muslim.God is not Buddhist.God is love.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

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.