Buddha Quotations and Sayings

1. Speak or act with an impure mind,
   And trouble will follow you.
    
2. Health, contentment and trust
   Are your greatest possessions,
   And freedom your greatest joy.
   Look within.
   Be still.
    
3. Free from passion and desire,
   You have stripped the thorns from the stem.
    
4. As the moon slips from behind a cloud
   And shines,
   So the master comes out from behind his ignorance
   And shines.
    
5. Do not look for bad company
   Or live with men who do not care.
   Find friends who love the truth.
   Drink deeply.
   Live in serenity and joy.
    
6. Do not let pleasure distract you
   From meditation, from the way.
   Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
    
7. You are a seeker.
   Delight in the mastery
   Of your hands and your feet,
   Of your words and your thoughts.
   Delight in meditation
   And in solitude.
    
8. How long the night to the watchman,
   How long the road to the weary traveller,
   How long the wandering of many lives
   To the fool who misses the way.
    
9. The true master lives in truth,
   In goodness and restraint,
   Non-violence, moderation and purity.
    
10. You are as the yellow leaf.
    The messengers of death are at hand.
    You are to travel far away.
    What will you take with you?