107 Buddha Quotes on Self-Love, Life, Peace & Happiness

Regardless of your religious beliefs, there is so much you can learn from the Buddha, (also known as Siddhartha Gautama), so today we’re looking at some powerful Buddha quotes on self-love, life, love, happiness and peace to guide you on this journey in life.

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These powerful quotes from Buddha will help you:

  • Work through things that may be challenging
  • Give you a new perspective on difficult situations
  • Provide inspiration to be in control of your best life – all it takes is an intentional step forward.
  • Help you focus on your own journey of self-discovery

To find inspirational words you might need to hear right now, simply click on the section below to get to the category you’re most interested in.

As you read through Buddha’s teachings, I’d love you to share your favourite Buddha quote.

Simply share in the comments at the end of the post and also let us know what you believe the deeper meaning of the quote to be.

Self-Love Buddha Quotes

The below self-love Buddha quotes will give you a new perspective on how to love yourself more, today and always.

Self Love Buddha Quote

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care.”

“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”

“Don’t compare your life to others. There’s no comparison between the sun, and the moon. They shine when it’s their time.”

– Buddha

“Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.”

“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”

“To be angry is to let others’ mistakes punish yourself.”

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”

Buddha Quotes on Happiness

So many parts of your life lead to happiness and these powerful quotes from Buddha remind us of what’s most important in life.

Buddha quote about happiness

“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate that which they already have.”

“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”

“A disciplined mind brings happiness.”

“If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.”

“It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.”

“Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit.”

– Buddha

“The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.”

“There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.”

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

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

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely.”

“A wise man, recognising that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”

“Whatever living beings there may be — feeble or strong, long, stout, or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born — may all beings have happy minds.”

Train your eyes and ears; train your nose and tongue. The senses are good friends when they are trained. Train your body in deeds, train your tongue in words, train your mind in thoughts. This training will take you beyond sorrow.”

– Buddha

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

“Let us rise up and be thankful. For if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”

Buddha Quotes About Life

There is so much reassurance in these simple words. “Life is suffering”. In other words – suffering is normal. It happens to us all.  

When we suffer it shows that we had something beautiful, we grieve, we have lost a dream – but this also leans into the fact that we have hopes, passions and so much to live for. When we suffer, only then can we experience and be grateful for true happiness.

“Life is suffering.”

– Buddha
Buddha quote - one moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

“One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.”

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

“Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”

– Buddha

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“Don’t respond to rudeness. When people are rude to you, they reveal who they are, not who you are. Don’t take it personally. Be silent.”

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

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

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

“Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don’t see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don’t see its damage. But, it does by days.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but the final victory comes to the one who endures.”

“To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”

– Buddha

“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life. Foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

“It seems that although we thought ourselves permanent, we are not. Although we thought ourselves settled, we are not. Although we thought we would last forever, we will not.”

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

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

Buddha Teachings To Be a Good Person in Life

When you find ways to see the good in your life and in others, it also allows you to exude goodness to everything around you.

Buddha quote about life - "Give, even if you only have a little."

“Give, even if you only have a little.”

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

“One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”

“A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”

“If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.”

“Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.”

“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”

– Buddha

“Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.”

“Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.”

“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”

“Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil.”

“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.”

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

“Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If one desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know such a one to be good, wise, and virtuous.”

Buddha Quotes on Peace of Mind

Wise words from Buddha on finding and focusing on peace in life.

Buddha quote about peace

“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

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

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”

“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”

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

“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” 

“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”

“Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.”

“Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.”

“At the end of the day, I’m at peace because my intentions are good and my heart is pure.”

Buddha Love Quotes

Without love, what really matters? Love of others, love of self, love of life – we need it all.

Buddha quote about love

“Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.”

“The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.”

“True love is born from understanding.”

“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world – above, below, and across – unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.”

– Buddha

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

“We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis…”

“Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.”

“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”

“When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.”

More Buddha Quotes To Inspire You

Inspirational Buddha quote - What you are is what you have been..."

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.”

– Buddha

“In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.”

“Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.”

“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”

“In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.”

Buddha quote on being kind

“If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?”

“Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.”

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

“Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well-spoken words: this is good luck.”

“She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.”

– Buddha

“The tongue like a sharp knife. It kills without drawing blood.”

“Life is so very hard. How can we be anything but kind?”

“Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.”

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

“Nothing is forever except change.”

“I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.”

“Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.”

“To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing.”

“Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.”

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“Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.”

“One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield. Be victorious over yourself and not over others.”

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