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Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama or the Buddha, was a spiritual leader and the founder of Buddhism. Born in the 6th century BC in the region of Lumbini, Nepal, he renounced his princely life to seek enlightenment. His teachings, emphasizing the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, have profoundly influenced the lives of millions around the world.

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Famous Gautama Buddha Quotes

“If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.”

World Doe Hate This World Eternal Hatred Cease

Author:Gautama Buddha

“An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.”

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“Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.”

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“One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.”

Thinking Feels Doe Loss Mines Worried

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“The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.”

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“The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.”

Doe Reality Land Son Fool My Son

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“Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.”

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“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.”

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“As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.”

World Doe Moving Wise Color Flower Harm Bees Gathering Fragrance Nectar

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“The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.”

Doe Body Beautiful Kings Decay Chariots

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“A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.”

Men Doe Play Wise Unicorn

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“If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.”

Ifs Doe Broken Vibrate Gongs

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“Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.”

Ifs Doe Suffering Sad Shore Diminish Transport

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“A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.”

Doe Self Reality Speak Self Esteem Concepts Esteem

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of 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.”

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“Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.”

Wells Doe Self Speak Speech Harm Buddhist Torment

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.”

Mind Doe Hate Attitude Enemy Greater Harm Hate You Undisciplined

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.”

Men Love Doe Evil He Man Return Protection Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.”

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“Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.”

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“Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.”

Doe Form Suffering Names Buddhist Attachment

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“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.”

Wells Doe Beautiful Practice Flower Bears Fruit Buddhist Fragrance Colorful Spoken Word Beautiful Flower

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“How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.”

Doe Practice Meditation Mindfulness Breaths Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Perceptions are known they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. This is how a monk stays awake.”

Doe Feelings Known Perception Arise Buddhist Awake Persist Monk Passing Away

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“Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.”

Men Mind Doe Death Sleep Dying Flower Busy Buddhist Carrie Village Flood Picking Flowers

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.”

Men Looks Doe Beautiful Flower Fine Buddhist Scent Fine Words

Author:Gautama Buddha

“'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?”

Way Children Doe Suffering Wealth Fool Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.”

Thinking Long Doe Suffering Fool Bears Fruit Deeds Buddhist Honey

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“Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.”

Doe Turns Fire Fool Deeds Buddhist Milk Scorching

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“Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.”

World Love Doe Religious Hatred Cease

Author:Gautama Buddha

“When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause”

Doe Has Beens Inspiration Causes Fruit Selfless

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“The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.”

Men Doe Suffering Views Theory Depends Holy Remains Currents Sects Holy Man

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“For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.”

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“The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.”

Doe Eye Heaven Mankind Kingdoms Brows Kingdom Of Heaven

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“The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.”

Doe Heaven Inspiring Virtue Wise Fragrance Wise Buddhist Dhammapada Sandalwood

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“One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.”

Doe Birth Holy Lows Deeds

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“If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.”

Ifs Doe Journey Fool Equal Solitary Companionship Traveller

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow. But, ancient wisdom has advocated a different timeless strategy to overcome hatred. This eternal wisdom is to meet hatred with non-hatred. The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.”

Ifs Doe Causes Effects Analysis Selflessness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“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.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]”

Thinking World Way Doe Pain Life Is Suffering Quality Gratitude Grateful Inevitable Etc Quantity Be Grateful Frequency Duration Optional Pain In Life

Author:Gautama Buddha

About the Author

Born: 567 BC
Died: 484 BC
Known for: Founding Figure
Quotes: 1183

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