1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

We cannot have, but can lose, everything.

We try to hard. Try to be happy, successful and popular. Trying and striving creates the sense of not having enough, thus you can never have what you strive for.

I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or we see it as a matter of finding the right person to advise us. We become beggars for our problems, asking numerous people for an opinion. So often, we refuse to relax until a problem is fixed, only to discover our inability to relax was most of the problem.

Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.

When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.

Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets.

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: "You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don't find time to practice, one of the three is missing.