Buddhist Proverbs & Quotes

Buddhist Proverbs<br><br>* It's easy to take up an old habit again.<br>* An angry mind is no mind at all.<br>* An act of love is an act of will. You do not have to feel like it. <br>* Death is one with the dark where the light has tricked us in to life; life is one with the light where the dark has deceived us in to death.<br>* People with opinions just go around blaming the world for things because of their own lack of understanding.<br>* When you finally see how valuable and precious life is, you can't help but love and have compassion for all people.<br>* Develop compassion for all creatures and see that all phenomena lack inherent existence.<br>* There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth—not going all the way, and not starting.<br>* It is important that when pursing your own path you consciously decide to smell like wealth.<br>* What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.<br>* The ultimate truth of life is that there is no ultimate truth of life. If a man ever reaches conclusively where he can say, "I am absolutely right," he will be absolutely wrong.<br>* The wound is the place where the light enters you.<br>* Happiness and suffering are creations of your own mind. This mind is Joy. It has created this universe and seeks its own enjoyment in it. It has thrown itself into itself. <br>* It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from outside, they are only projections outward of the evil in our own hearts.<br>* We can't. We will fall. Come to look at it, the whole thing is not exactly what you'd call "some plan." <br>* It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It can't be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.<br>* To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.<br><br>&#x200B;<br><br>\*\*<br><br>&#x200B;<br><br>Buddhist Quotes<br><br>* The mind is everything. What you think you become.<br>* Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.<br>* Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.<br>* The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.<br>* 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. <br>* You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.<br>* Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.<br>* It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.<br>* It is better to travel well than to arrive. <br>* Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, the greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, the greatest glory in living lies in rising every time we fall. Live in the present.<br>* If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows him like a shadow.<br>* If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.<br>* If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. <br>* If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind. <br>* If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.<br>* Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you. <br>* It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.<br>* It is ridiculous to lay down a set of rules for happiness and prosperity in the name of religion.<br>* It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from outside, they are only projections outward of the evil in our own hearts. <br>* Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. <br>* Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past, over and over again.<br>* Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything other than kind? <br>* Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.<br>* Our greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. <br>* Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as if it is wrong or wronging others in an attempt to place the pain not wrong is what causes suffering. <br>* Pain is part of life. Sometimes it's just part of life.<br>* Pay no attention to that. Don't spend even a moment listening.<br>* People are unhappy in the midst of prosperity.<br>* Raised on hasbrowns and blood stews.<br>* Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.<br>* The essence of life is not knowledge, it is not wealth, it is not fame, it is not art, story, or song. It is a permanent breath of nature that we are unable to stop or to seize. The origin of mind is simply relationship (the will to connect). <br>* The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore, guard accordingly.<br>* The less one knows and understands himself, the less power and strength and grandeur he possesses, with which to bear the storms and trials and overcome the obstacles of life.<br>* The mind contains some part which remains to itself, and that this part affords no occasion for a doubt; that this is as it were an internal fortress, into whose possession all the other faculties as sentinels might repair, when the assault is made by the treacherous arts of the skeptics. <br>* The mind is everything; what you think you become. <br>* The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.<br>* The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.<br>* The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. <br>* The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.<br>* The wound is the place where the light enters you.<br>* There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.<br>* There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.<br>* Things will get worse before they get better. <br>* Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. <br>* 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.<br>* To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.<br>* To overcome any difficulty there are three essentials ... hard work, more hard work, and intelligent direction of work (strategic planing). <br>* Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. <br>* Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. <br>* We are all already Buddhas. It's only because we don't realize it that we aren't. <br>* We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind, and trouble will follow you. Cleanse your mind, and joy follows. This budding flower of life is the Buddhas, the Christ the Krisha. Do not look at my face; see me with your heart. Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the Breath, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the Breath again, and unite with God.<br>* What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. <br>* What you think, you create; what you feel, you attract; what you imagine, you become.<br>* When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending. <br>* When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.<br>* When you realize how