Top 10 Buddhism Quotes
Buddhism, founded by Siddhartha Gautama, teaches that life entails suffering (dukkha), originating from craving and attachment. It offers the Four Noble Truths: suffering, its cause, its end, and the path to its end—the Eightfold Path. This path includes ethical conduct, meditation, and mindfulness to achieve enlightenment, freeing oneself from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth (samsara). The essence lies in understanding suffering's nature, its cessation through the abandonment of craving, and following a disciplined path of right understanding, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration to attain liberation.
Top 10 Buddhism Quotes
1. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
— Buddha
2. "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
— Buddha
3. "The root of suffering is attachment."
— Buddha
4. "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
— Buddha
5. "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
— Buddha
6. "What we think, we become."
— Buddha
7. "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
— Buddha
8. "May all beings have happy minds."
— Buddha
9. "Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth."
— Buddha
10. "Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it."
— Buddha