Great Throughts Treasury

"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom."

"Earnestness is the path of immortality, thoughtlessness the path of death. Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already."

"Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial."

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

"Enlightenment is an end to suffering."

"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair."

"Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything."

"Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame."

"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."

"Even if everyone else is not doing good, I alone will. Even if everyone else is doing wrong, I alone will not. Just as water cools both good and bad and washes away all impurity and dust, in the same way you should develop thoughts of love for friend and foe alike, and having reached perfection in love, you will attain enlightenment."

"Even when obstacles crowd in, the path to Nibbana can be won by those who establish mindfulness and bring to perfection equipoise."

"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law of eternal."

"Every human being is the author of his own health and disease."

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

"Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package"

"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."

"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. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form."

"Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death."

"Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done. We alone are responsible for our lives."

"Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds."

"Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side."

"Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, crosses over, beyond the reach of death."

"Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good."

"Find your faults, feel deep regret, and correct your mistakes. Reform sincerely, practice kindness, concentrate the mind sever selfishness, awaken."

"First direct yourself to what is right and then teach others."

"First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words. Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher. Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation. And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions."

"Focus not on the rudeness of others, not on what they've done or left undone, but on what you have done and have not done yourself."

"Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. He who is serious with purpose, meditative, obtains true joy."

"Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond!"

"Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear."

"Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light."

"Fools wait for a lucky day but every day is a lucky day for an industrious man."

"For a while the fool's mischief tastes sweet, sweet as honey. Bit in the end it turns bitter. And how bitterly he suffers!"

"For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering."

"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time, hatred ceases by not-hatred, this is the old rule"

"For in craving pleasure or in nursing pain there is only sorrow."

"For never does hatred cease by hatred here below; hatred ceases by love; this is an eternal law."

"For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to mastery of mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from bonds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing so helpful as giving close attention to the mind."

"Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer."

"Four misfortunes befall a heedless man who commits adultery: acquisition of demerit, disturbed sleep, thirdly blame, and fourthly a state of woe."

"Free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of the way. How joyful to look upon the awakened and to keep company with the wise. How long the road to the man who travels the road with the fool."

"Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem."

"Free yourself from attachment. Know the sweet joy of the way. How joyful to look upon the awakened and to keep company with the wise. How long the road to the man who travels the road with the fool."

"Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man."

"Fresh milk takes time to sour. So a fool's mischief takes time to catch up with him. Like the embers of a fire it smolders within him."

"Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and richer"

"Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace."

"From a withered tree, a flower blooms."

"From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear."

"From the Dharma should one see the Buddhas, From the dharma-bodies come their guidance. Yet dharma's true nature cannot be discerned and no one can be conscious of it as an object"