Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

"To sleep peacefully at night, one must live truthfully during the day."

"A moment of patience may ward off great disaster."

"The greatest discovery of all is that a person can change his own destiny by merely changing his attitude."

"There is no greater force than that of understanding others with compassion."

"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow."

"The only real failure is the failure to try."

"See the world as it is, not as you wish it to be."

"The dharma you practice should lead to the reduction of suffering, not the increase of it."

"Better than a thousand useless words is one word that brings peace."

"To live in this world without understanding it is like trying to read with your eyes closed."

"The mind is like a lotus flower. It grows in mud but blooms in sunlight."

"True love is to care for others more than you care for yourself."

"If you tend to the roses, the thorns will take care of themselves."

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

"The greatest gift you can give another is your attention."

"Wrong speech is the root of all wrong action."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance with life itself."

"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, but first you must think it clearly."

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

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind."

"The root of suffering is attachment."

"What we think, we become. Mind is the forerunner of all action."

"Conquer yourself rather than a thousand men in battle; this is the supreme victory."

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

"The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion."

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."

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

"All conditioned things are impermanent; when one sees this with wisdom, one becomes dispassionate toward the painful."