Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

"No one is born hating another person. Hate is learned, and if it can be learned, it can be unlearned."

"The effort to understand the self and perfect the self never ends until one achieves enlightenment."

"What has been will be again. What will be has been before."

"Do not compare yourself with others. Compare yourself with who you were yesterday."

"The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

"Meditate on what you truly are. In that moment, you'll find freedom."

"The fool's life is worse than death, but the wise man's life is better than a thousand lifetimes."

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"Mindfulness is the path to the Deathless; heedlessness is the path to death."

"Do not believe anything because I have said it. Test all things for yourself."

"Circumstances do not make the man; they reveal him."

"Just as lotuses are rooted in mud yet bloom unstained, so too can we blossom amidst suffering."

"The only failure is in the mind of the one who has already given up."

"Speak only endearing speech that is accepted, speech that goes to the heart."

"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path yourself."

"The root of all suffering is the illusion of separation from others."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become. But this becoming is not instantaneous; it is a gradual unfolding."

"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."

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

"What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

"The only way to lose your suffering is to embrace it as part of your path."

"Do not believe anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations."

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

"Patience is the ornament of the brave. In patience lies strength."

"Nothing is permanent except change itself."

"The greatest wealth is wisdom. The greatest poverty is ignorance."

"Love is patient, love is kind. But love must also be truthful."