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 Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice. Gautama Buddha buddhist flower beautiful In compassion lies the world's true strength. Gautama Buddha strong peace lying When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare Gautama Buddha sorrow inspiration mind All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts. A man's life is the direct result of his thoughts... We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Gautama Buddha men world thinking There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. Gautama Buddha buddhist passion fire In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed; In what is thought, there should be just the thought. He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world. Gautama Buddha buddhist buddhism strong War ends only when people love each other. Gautama Buddha ends war people All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network. Gautama Buddha ethics links together The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us. Gautama Buddha deeds giving world For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear. Gautama Buddha blame judgement mind As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed. Gautama Buddha buddhist doe water After enlightenment, the laundry. Gautama Buddha enlightenment laundry inspiring As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse. Gautama Buddha buddhist arrows elephants Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company. Gautama Buddha treasure compassion wise Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you. Gautama Buddha way If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements. Gautama Buddha buddhist pain strong Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted. Gautama Buddha peaceful mind giving A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip. Gautama Buddha horse shadow running The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. Gautama Buddha buddhist wise inspiring Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn. Gautama Buddha lamps buddhist looks
