Buddha Quotations and Sayings

1. Whoever follows impure thoughts
   Suffers in this world and the next.
   In both worlds he suffers
   And how greatly
    
2. Why do what you will regret?
   Why bring tears upon yourself?
   Do only what you do not regret,
   And fill yourself with joy.
    
3. Be quick to do good.
   If you are slow,
   The mind, delighting in mischief,
   Will catch you.
    
4. With gentleness overcome anger.
   With generosity overcome meanness.
   With truth overcome deceit.
    
5. The fool is his own enemy.
   The mischief is his undoing.
   How bitterly he suffers!
    
6. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
    
7. Beware of the anger of the body.
   Master the body.
   Let it serve truth.
    
8. There is pleasure
   And there is bliss.
   Forgo the first to possess the second.
    
9. But if you cannot find
   Friend or master to go with you,
   Travel on alone -
   Like a king who has given away his kingdom,
   Like an elephant in the forest.
   Travel on alone
    
10. It is not iron that imprisons you
    Nor rope nor wood,
    But the pleasure you take in gold and jewels,
    In sons and wives.
    Soft fetters,
    Yet they hold you down.
    Can you snap them?