50+ Deep Buddha Quotes On Life, Spirituality And Happiness

Buddha quotes are inspiring and teach us the right way of living and leading life. Reading these quotes will help you regain control of the wandering mind and bring back discipline. 

So, lets not wait further and check out this collection of life-changing Gautam Buddha quotes to guide you on the path of spirituality and happiness. 

Gautam Buddha Quotes On Life, Love And Peace

1. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
2. The mind is everything. What you think you become.
3. The root of suffering is attachment.
   
4. Some do not understand that we must die, but those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
5. The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live.
   
6. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
7. Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
8. Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.
9. They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.
   
10. Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.
11. Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
12. Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.
13. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
    
14. All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
15. Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
16. May all beings have happy minds.
17. You only lose what you cling to.
    
18. I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.
19. It is better to travel well than to arrive.
20. Speak only endearing speech … Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.
21. Whoever doesn’t flare up at someone who’s angry wins a battle hard to win.
22. Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.
23. Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
24. A disciplined mind brings happiness.
    
25. Let him not deceive another nor despise anyone anywhere. In anger or ill will let him not wish another ill.
26. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.
    
27. As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.’ Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.
28. Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
    
29. Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.
30. Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!
31. The one in whom no longer exists the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range?
32. When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.
    
33. All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.
34. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
    
35. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
36. We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.’ Thus should you train yourselves.
37. The one in whom no longer exists the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range.
38. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
    
39. Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
40. Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
    
41. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
42. Whatever is not yours … your letting go of it will be for your long term happiness & benefit.
43. Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing.
    
44. Not falling into wrong views — being virtuous, endowed with insight, lust in the senses discarded — verily never again will he return to conceive in a womb.
45. In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.
46. The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
    
47. Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.
48. Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.
49. Give, even if you only have a little.
    
50. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
51. All conditioned things are impermanent’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

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