Buddhist Quotes

• Dalai Lama

Be gentle with the earth.

• Gautama Buddha / Founding Figure

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

• Shunryu Suzuki

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

• Raimon Panikkar / Priest

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

• Orlando Bloom / Actor

I am a Buddhist.

• Taisen Deshimaru

Think with your whole body.

• Frederick Lenz / Author

Don't preach about meditation.

• Allan Lokos / Author

Patience has all the time it needs.

• Noah Levine / Author

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

• Nhat Hanh / Monk

My actions are my only true belongings.

• Dogen / Philosopher

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

• Cher / Singer

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

• Uma Thurman / Actress

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

• Al Gore / Former Vice President Of The United States

I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple.

• Kobayashi Issa / Poet

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

• Sivananda / Author

Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.

• Aristotle / Philosopher

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

• Milarepa / Poet

My religion is to live and die without regret.

• H. Jackson Brown, Jr. / Author

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

• Daisaku Ikeda / President

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

• Dennis Merzel

The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.

• Tsem Tulku

A persons outer action reflects their inner mind.

• Atisa

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

• Robert Bly / Poet

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

• Tina Turner / Singer

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

• Burton Cummings / Musician

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

• George Sanders / Film Actor

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

• Hunter S. Thompson / Journalist

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.

• Ajahn Chah

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

• Bankei Yotaku

In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.

• Ye Xiaowen / Politician

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.

• Alan Watts / Philosopher

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

• Roger Zelazny / Writer

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

• Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

• Harry Carpenter / Sports Commentator

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

• Matt Dillon / Actor

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

• Sakyong Mipham

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

• Sharon Salzberg / Author

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

• Jack Kornfield / Author

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

• Martin Scorsese / Film Director

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

• Bodo Balsys / Author

Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.

• Mahatma Gandhi / Civil Rights Leader

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

• Duncan Sheik / Singer-Songwriter

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

• Steven Cojocaru / Television Actor

I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.

• Brad Warner / Author

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

• Confucius / Philosopher

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

• Tilopa

One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.

• Tim Ward / Soccer Player

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

• Laozi / Philosopher

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

• Joan Halifax / Anthropologist

Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.