Gautama Buddha

Buddha  as an Avatar statue at Dwaraka Tirumala Temple, West Godavari district

• [From wiki "was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in Ancient India (c. 5th to 4th century BCE).Born c. around 480 BCE Death c. 400 BCE (aged 80)"]

Other names include: Siddhārtha Gautama, Siddhattha Gotama, Shakyamuni 

Note: The only quote i remember from buddha from young me research = something like you dont need things in order to be happy cause that conditions your happiness. i agree! so im looking at more quotes from: https://wisdomquotes.com/buddha-quotes/

Here are The Best Buddha Quotes i agree with:

1. If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
2. A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
3. One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.
4. No one saves us but ourselves....We ourselves must walk the path.
5. When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself." =Buddha
6. All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
7. The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
8. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
9. Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words
10. Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
11. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
12. If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
13. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
14. Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable (except) to one who is Awakened.
15. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
16. However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
17. May all beings have happy minds.
18. Born out of concern for all beings.
19. I am the miracle.
20. Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
21. The way is in the heart.
22. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
23. As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
24. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
25. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
26. Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
27. A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
28. When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
29. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
30. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
31. What you think you create, what you feel you attract, what you imagine you become.
32. Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
33. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
34. If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
35. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
36. One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.
37. She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.
38. Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
39. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
40. Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.
41. If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
42. True love is born from understanding.
43. Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.
44. Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.
45. We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by loving kindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.
46. Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
47. Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.
48. Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.
49. Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
50. He is able who thinks he is able.
51. It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
52. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.
53. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
54. Our life is the creation of our mind.
55. The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men
56. I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed..
57. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.
58. It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
59. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.
60. Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
61. Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
62. Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.
63. The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
64. Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.
65. Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
66. Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that ‘I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind’. What is this realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind ?
67. He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake’s venom that so quickly spreads, — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
68. May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
69. Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
70. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
71. In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength
72. Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
73. If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
74. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
75. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
76. Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
77. Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
78. There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.
79. Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
80. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ;)

 i ditched some old Buddha Quotes and gave my reasons as to why:

1.  attachment=not the downfall you can hold onto bonds and valuable things in spirit we have all things valuable 
2. its not about losing desires its shooting off rockets of desire for law of attraction  
3. its not about losing when we lose something material  
4. its not about losing when someone dies Find heaven is still alive an to hang with still you can
5. dont doubt everything let heart guide
6. we do not need to shed all pasts like a snake 
7. "There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it." (but not evil in existence forever)
8. "Live every act fully, as if it were your last." but do not law of attract your death 
9. "Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good" = i disagree
10. Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.(its best to interpret this as   silence negativity and talk 'truth' truth = "peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.")
11. its not about strive which= struggling its about life being way easier with love

 

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(All these greatly relate to =  The Keys to Nirvana = Heaven on Earth)