BUDDHA QUOTES SADNESS

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”

“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”

“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”

“Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”

“One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.”

“You only lose what you cling to.”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

“The greatest prayer is patience.”

“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”

“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”

“To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.”

“In the end, these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?”

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

“Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.”

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

“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.”

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”

“The root of suffering is attachment.”

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”

“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.”