The Dhammapada
A source page for quotes linked to Gautama Buddha.
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
“When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.”
“As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.”
“Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.”
“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”
“For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.”
“O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.”
“I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.”
“Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.”
“For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.”