1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

We are still a long way from having sorted out wild conjecture from reasonable hypothesis in the maelstrom of ideas. Meantime, it has become irrevocably clear that there are whole blocks of experience that do not fit received patterns and may require new paradigms of mind.

Haters turn your followers into worshippers.

People don't have time to be evil. There is pettiness all around but not much evil.

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

At the loss of praise and fame, my own mind appears to me just like a child who wails in distress when its sand castle is destroyed.

If your mouth is open, you're not learning.

Humility and Dignity had a daughter, called Arrogance, who was ashamed of her name and used to hide behind Pride. But Pride was in love with Truth, therefore arrogance married Illusion and forever despised Truth. Pride and Truth had a daughter, called Happiness, while Arrogance and Illusion had a son, called Despair. When both meet, one of them cries.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.