108 Best Buddha Quotes on Life & Love (PEACE)

Top 9 Inspirational Buddha Quotes (BEST)

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them — However many holy words you **read**, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Do not dwell in the past, do not **dream** of the **future**, **concentrate** the mind on the present moment.

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. — What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you **imagine**, you create.

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. — 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.

20 Thought-Provoking Buddha Quotes About Life

“They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.”
Buddha

To understand everything is to forgive everything. — To understand everything is to **forgive** everything.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

“Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.”
Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. 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.”
Buddha

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

It is better to travel well than to arrive. — It is better to **travel** well than to arrive.

“Let us rise up and be thankful. For if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”
Buddha

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires. — There is no **fear** for one whose mind is not filled with desires.

When you dig a well, there’s no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another. — **Purity** or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

Don’t rush anything. When the time is right it’ll happen. — Don’t rush anything. When the **time** is right it’ll happen.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. — An idea that is developed and put into **action** is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. — Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with **diligence**.

Those who consider the unessential to be essential, and see the essential as unessential, don’t reach the essential, living in the field of wrong intention.

9 Buddha Quotes on Love

“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.”
Buddha

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.

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

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. — **Ambition** is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. — Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with **kindness**. Silence the miser with **generosity**. Silence the liar with **truth**.

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child. — Love the whole world as a **mother** loves her only child.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

2 Buddha Quotes on Success

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. — **Endurance** is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

When you attain victory over yourself, not even the gods can turn it into defeat.

9 Buddha Quotes on Happiness

A disciplined mind brings happiness. — A disciplined mind brings **happiness**.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. — Happiness will never come to those who fail to **appreciate** what they already have.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. — Delight in **meditation** and **solitude**. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

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.

The way to happiness is keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by. — The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.

Whatever is not yours let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit. — Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit.

There is no path to happiness happiness is the path. — There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

10 Buddha Quotes on Peace

“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.”
Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. — Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings **peace**.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. — Those who are free of **resentful** thoughts surely find peace.

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing. — To support mother and father, to cherish wife and **children**, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest **blessing**.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving, and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

5 Buddha Quotes on Karma

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma. — Once you know the **nature** of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from **karma**.

One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.

Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.

When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

5 Buddha Quotes About Self-love

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. — If your **compassion** does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

6 Buddha Quotes About Health

“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.”
Buddha

To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. — To keep the body in good health is a **duty** otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Health is the greatest **gift**, **contentment** the greatest **wealth**, faithfulness the best relationship.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. — Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

5 Buddha Quotes About Thoughts

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. — 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.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts!

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

3 Buddha Quotes on Finding Faults

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault a training to be observed. — I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.

3 Buddha Quotes on Giving

“He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.”
Buddha

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. — If you knew what I know about the power of **giving**, you would not let a single meal pass without **sharing** it in some way.

2 Buddha Quotes on Attachment

Live with no sense of 'mine,' not forming attachment to experiences. — Live with no sense of ‘mine,’ not forming attachment to **experiences**.

4 Buddha Quotes About Anger

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

5 Buddha Quotes About Truth

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Three things cannot be long hidden the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.

11 Buddha Quotes That Will Make You Think

“A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.”
Buddha

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana. — He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving **determination** is sure to reach Nirvana.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

“Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.”
Buddha