If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don't say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it. Gautama Buddha More Quotes by Gautama Buddha More Quotes From Gautama Buddha If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. Gautama Buddha mind inspirational men Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts. Gautama Buddha meditation character watches He who is kind to animals heaven will protect. Gautama Buddha kind animal heaven Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. Gautama Buddha buddhist men life Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks. Gautama Buddha cows giving religion It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Gautama Buddha east mind thinking The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. Gautama Buddha unattainable passion numbers Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire. Gautama Buddha ignorance roots desire Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom. Gautama Buddha simple teaching way Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence? Gautama Buddha buddhist what-if perfect Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. Gautama Buddha effort truth inspirational In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected. Gautama Buddha ahimsa protected commitment If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires. Gautama Buddha ocean heart running As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens. Gautama Buddha buddhist safe thinking You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up. Gautama Buddha dont-give-up giving-up community But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest. Gautama Buddha intelligent kings wise Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves. Gautama Buddha lamps buddhist truth There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being. Gautama Buddha sick dying world To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. Gautama Buddha political spiritual believe Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise. Gautama Buddha buddhist buddhism
