Spiritual Teacher Quotes

75 quotes in this collection

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

-- Gautama Buddha

"Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak."

-- Gautama Buddha

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

-- Gautama Buddha

"The secret of health for both mind and body is... to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

-- Gautama Buddha

"A jug fills drop by drop."

-- Gautama Buddha

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it... unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

-- Gautama Buddha

"Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another."

-- Gautama Buddha

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

-- Gautama Buddha

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

-- Gautama Buddha

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

-- Gautama Buddha

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

-- Gautama Buddha

"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."

-- Gautama Buddha

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

-- Gautama Buddha

"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

-- Gautama Buddha

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

-- Gautama Buddha

"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others."

-- Gautama Buddha

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

-- Gautama Buddha

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

-- Gautama Buddha

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

-- Gautama Buddha

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

-- Gautama Buddha

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

-- Gautama Buddha

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

-- Gautama Buddha

"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."

-- Gautama Buddha

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

-- Gautama Buddha
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