Gautama Buddha Quotes About Suffering

• It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

  Gautama Buddha

  Animal, Evil, Suffering

• 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]

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Pain, Grateful

• What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Yesterday, Meditation

• Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

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  Life, Attitude, Thinking

• May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Animal, Suffering

• Attachment leads to suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Attachment, Suffering

• To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Forgiveness

• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Struggle, Buddhism

• 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

• Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

• Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thoughtful, Suffering, Way

• By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self, Evil, Suffering

• (The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Buddhist, Real

• A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Believe, Men

• The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Pain, Inspiration

• Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Suffering, Certain

• Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Wish

• He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Enemy

• Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
  Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
  Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
  Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Compassion, Practice

• May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness- the children, the aged, the unprotected- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Children, Thinking

• '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?

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  Buddhist, Children, Suffering

• Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.

  Gautama Buddha

  Letting Go, Suffering, Hardest

• Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Mind, Suffering

• Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Compassion

• May I hold myself in compassion.
  May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Compassion, Suffering

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