Gautama Buddha

In compassion lies the world’s true strength.

Buddha

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

Buddha

In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

Buddha

In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

Buddha

In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

Buddha

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Buddha

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Buddha

Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others’ affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.

Buddha

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

Buddha

It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.

Buddha