25 Buddhist proverbs to regain faith in life

Buddhism brings us ancient reflections to give us encouragement and unique insights.

Buddhism is a means of individual and social transformation that simply offers its practices and teachings to anyone who wishes to learn. People can take as much or as little as they wish.

It is possible to practice meditation in order to gain wellness and tranquility or we may want to follow the Buddhist path to enlightenment. Today we have a compilation of the best Buddhist Proverbs.

Buddhist Proverbs on Life

We start with these proverbs that can certainly influence the way we conceive existence and interpersonal relationships. Are you ready?

1. "Like beautiful flowers, with color, but without scent, are sweet words to him who does not act in accordance with them."

People who do not act in accordance with ideals often fall prey to superficiality.

2. "Greater than the conquest in battle of a thousand times a thousand men is the conquest of oneself."

Do not think about what challenges the world has in store for you, but what challenges your own conscience has in store for you.

3. "In any battle both victors and vanquished lose."

One of those famous Buddhist quotations that emphasize the catastrophe of war.

4. "Do not be friends with fools."

...if you don't want to end up being as foolish as they are.

5. "What we are today rests on what we thought yesterday, and our present thoughts shape our future life."

The influence of the past and the future on our identity.

6. "False imagination teaches you that such things as light and shadow, length and height, black and white are different and have to be discriminated; but they are not independent of each other; they are different aspects of the same thing, they are concepts of relation, not reality."

A philosophical sentence to be freely interpreted.

7. "If you cannot improve on what others have said, keep the noble silence."

Talking for the sake of talking is not usually wise. If you don't know what to contribute, simply reflect.

8. "There is no other happiness than inner peace."

Buddhism is the philosophy that puts as its main goal in life this total attunement with oneself, inner peace.

9. "A fool who recognizes his folly is a wise man. But a fool who thinks he is wise is, in truth, a fool."

A well-recognized Buddhist proverb that holds an unquestionable truth.

10. "Why do things that you'll later have to regret? It is not necessary to live with so many tears. Do only that which is right, that which you will not have to regret, that whose sweet fruits you will reap with joy."

A reflection on the rush of modern life. Maybe we don't need so much to be happy.

11. "The man who does evil suffers in this world and suffers in the next. He suffers and mourns at the sight of all the harm he has done. But the man who does good is happy in this world and happy in the other. In both worlds he rejoices, seeing all the good he has done."

What sense is there in doing evil? Sooner or later we will regret not having known how to make good connections with other people?

12. "There are two things, O disciple, that should be avoided: A life of pleasures; that is base and vain. A life of mortifications; that is useless and vain."

Balance and harmony are the key to good living.

13. "Among beings who hate, we shall live without hate."

In a world of wars, enmities and grudges, the truly revolutionary thing to do is to share love and affection.

14. "Seek not the friendship of those whose souls are impure; seek not the company of men of wicked souls. Associate with those whose souls are beautiful and good."

I hope you liked this compilation of Buddhist proverbs very much.. Thank you very much for your attention.

15. Rejoice because every place is here and every moment is now.

One of the phrases that best summarizes one of the basic pillars of Buddhism: the emphasis on the present.

16. What we think we become

What we think gives formka to our identity.

17. Peace comes from within, we should not look for it outside

This proverb reflects one of the characteristics of traditional thinking in much of Asia: trying to transform the environment is in vain.

18. Take care of the outside as well as the inside: everything is one.

There is a correspondence between mind and appearance.

19. Those who are free from resentment will find peace.

Achieving peace is a process based on simplicity.

20. The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground

Change and the experiences we live through as we relate to our surroundings make us aware of ourselves.

21. To understand everything it is necessary to forget everything

A reflection that reflects the extent to which Buddhism's idea of knowledge is far removed from that of the West..

22. Death cannot be feared if one has lived wisely

Everyone perceives death by thinking about how he has lived.

23. He who envies has no peace

Envy is a source of intrusive thoughts that prevent us from experiencing life with simplicity.

24. Work out your own salvation

The liberation Buddhism speaks of is fundamentally individual.

25. Man cannot exist without a spiritual life

A way of emphasizing the importance of the spiritual.