Life Quotes Quote by Siddhārtha Gautama — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.”

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

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

“Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”

“To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.”

“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.”

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”

““HOBBES:”

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”

“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”

“It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”

“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”