Buddha Quotes and Sayings

• Speak or act with an impure mind,
  And trouble will follow you.
   
• 
  An untroubled mind,
  No longer seeking to consider
  What is right and what is wrong,
  A mind beyond judgements,
  Watches and understands.
   
• In this world Hate
  never yet dispelled hate.
  Only love dispels hate.
  This is the law,
  Ancient and inexhaustible.
  
   
• In every trial
  Let understanding fight for you
   
• If a man's thoughts are muddy,
  If he is reckless and full of deceit,
  How can he wear the yellow robe?
  Whoever is master of his own nature,
  Bright, clear and true,
  He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
   
• Your worst enemy cannot harm you
  As much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
  But once mastered,
  No one can help you as much,
  Not even your father or your mother.
   
• Whoever follows impure thoughts
  Suffers in this world and the next.
  In both worlds he suffers
  And how greatly
   
• Understand that the body
  Is merely the foam of a wave,
  The shadow of a shadow.
   
• Desire never crosses the path
  Of virtuous and wakeful men.
   
• The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay
  Does not travel far.
  But the fragrance of virtue
  Rises to the heavens.