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Real Buddha Quotes

Verified Quotes from the Buddhist Scriptures

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Most of the quotes you'll see attributed to the Buddha on sites like "Brainy Quote" and Goodreads are fake! You can learn more about this on fakebuddhaquotes.com. All the quotes you'll find here are verified to come from the Buddhist scriptures.

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  • “The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?” The Buddha
  • “It’s a good thing to be satisfied with what one has.” —The Buddha
  • “Should someone do good, let them do it again and again. They should develop this habit, for the accumulation of goodness brings joy.” The Buddha
  • “Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, upon hearing which one attains peace.”—The Buddha
  • “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.”—Buddha

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Quotation topics

A

abuse (1) action (3) anger (2) appreciation (1) attachment (3) Awakening (7)

B

balance (1) battle (1) becoming (2) blame (2) blessings (3)

C

calm (1) children (1) communication (3) compassion (15) conditioned things (1) conflict (2) contentment (1) craving (4) criticism (1)

D

death (2) desire (1) discipline (1) dishonesty (2) dukkha (1)

E

elephants (1) empathy (5) ethics (1) evil (3)

F

family (1) father (1) faults (1) fear (2) finding fault (2) forests (1) friends (3)

G

generosity (3) giving (1) giving offense (1) good (4) grief (1)

H

habit (1) happiness (7) hatred (1) heedfulness (3)

I

impermanence (7) intention (1)

J

jhana (3) joy (2)

K

kalyana mitrata (spiritual friendship) (3) killing (1) kindness (1)

L

letting go (1) liberation (1) love (14)

M

meanness (1) meditation (3) merit (3) metta (4) mind (1) mother (1) mothers (1)

N

non-attachment (1) non-harm (1) non-violence (3)

O

outcast (1)

P

patience (3) peace (2) praise (1) purity (2)

R

regret (1) rivers (2)

S

self (1) self-reliance (3) silence (1) simplicity (1) solitude (1) sorry (1) speech (1) suffering (3)

T

the Dhamma (1) the heart (1) the mind (1) the ocean (2) the senses (1) thoughts (1) training (6) truth (2)

V

views (1)

W

wisdom (5) work (1)
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