Gautama Buddha Quotes About Inspiration

• Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Spirituality

• Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Inspiration

• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

• Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Animal, Feet

• The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Inspirational, Buddhist

• To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Peace, Buddhist

• The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Pain, Inspiration

• You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

  Gautama Buddha

  Horse, Inspiration, Discipline

• Believe nothing,
  No matter where you read it,
  Or who has said it,
  Not even if I have said it,
  Unless it agrees with your own reason
  And your own common sense.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

• With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

• Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Inspiration, Passing Away

• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Atheist, Believe

• There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Meditation And Yoga

• Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Buddhism

• When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Mind, Sorrow

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Buddhist

• Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Beautiful, Fashion

• Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Heirs, Action

• Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ocean, Teaching, Inspiration

• As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Thinking

• I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Inspiration

• The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Buddhist, Inspiration

• Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Inspiration

• Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Return, Emotion

• Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Inspiration, House

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