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.

— Buddha

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.

— Buddha

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

— Buddha

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

— Buddha

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

— Buddha

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

— Buddha

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

— Buddha

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

— Buddha

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

— Buddha

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddha hood.

— Buddha