Buddhist Sayings ☸️ in 2025

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

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

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

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

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

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.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

You can only lose what you cling to.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last. Click to tweet

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

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Attachment leads to suffering. Click to tweet

What you think you create, what you feel you attract, what you imagine you become.

Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.