Some of the fundamentals of the teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha are:

The Four Noble Truths: that suffering is an ingrained part of existence; that the origin of suffering is craving for sensuality, acquisition of identity, and annihilation; that suffering can be ended; and that following the Noble Eightfold Path is the means to accomplish this.

The Noble Eightfold Path: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.

Dependent origination: the mind creates suffering as a natural product of a complex process.

Rejection of the infallibility of accepted scripture: Teachings should not be accepted unless they are borne out by our experience and are praised by the wise.

Anicca (Sanskrit: anitya): That all things that come to be have an end.

Dukkha (Sanskrit: dukha): That nothing which comes to be is ultimately satisfying.

Anatta (Sanskrit: anatman): That nothing in the realm of experience can really be said to be “I” or “mine”.

Nibbana (Sanskrit: Nirvana): It is possible for sentient beings to realize a dimension of awareness which is totally unconstructed and peaceful, and end all suffering due to the mind’s interaction with the conditioned world.

Selected Classic Quotes, Inspirational Quotes and Life Quotes by Buddha:

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“ Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

“ Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

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

“ It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”

“ Whatever is felt is within suffering.”

“ Death in battle would be better for me than that I, defeated, survive.”

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

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

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

“ The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”

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

“ To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”

“ We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

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

“ A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.”

“ To understand everything is to forgive everything.”

“ 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.”

“ 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.”

“ An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

“ An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”

“ Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

“ All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

“ You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”

“ There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”

“ 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.”

Some Classic Quotes on Christmas:

“ Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.”
~ Helen Steiner Rice

“ I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
~ Charles Dickens

“ What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”
~ Agnes M. Pahro

“ As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.”
~ Eric Sevareid

“ It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
~ W.T. Ellis

“ Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.”
~ Oren Arnold

“ There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”
~ Erma Bombeck

“ I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.”
~ May Sarton

“ At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.”
~ Thomas Tusser

“ The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
~ Burton Hillis

“ The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.”
~ Helen Keller

“ Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”
~ Dale Evans Rogers

“ Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
~ Larry Wilde

“ Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
~ Calvin Coolidge

“ I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.”
~ Taylor Caldwell

“ My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
~ Bob Hope

“ Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
~ Peg Bracken

“ This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.”
~ Taylor Caldwell

“ Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year.”
~ Victor Borge

“ Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
~ Dennis Miller

“ Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.”
~ Kin Hubbard

“ I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
~ Shirley Temple

“ Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit.”

“ Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.”
~ Ethel Merman

“ The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.”
~ Joan Rivers

“ Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we’ll be seeing six or seven.”
~ W.C. Fields

“ I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark.”
~ Dick Gregory

“ Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”
~ Johnny Carson.

“ Christmas is the season of peace and goodwill, till you go shopping & get the bill.”

“ The big man is coming and already I’m shedding a tear. I’m just too santamental.”

“ People really act weird at Christmas time! What other time of year do you sit in front of a dead tree in the living room and eat nuts and sweets out of your socks?”

“ Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.
Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.”

“ The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.”
~ Jay Leno

Some Classic Quotes on Easter:

“ The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.”
~ Robert Flatt

“ Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.”
~ Floyd W. Tomkins

“ Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.”
~ Charles M. Crowe

“ The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.”
~ Basil C. Hume

“ And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.”
~ St Augustine

“ Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.”
~ Albert Laighton

“ The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.”
~ Henry Knox Sherrill

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, “Christ is risen,” but “I shall rise.”
~ Phillips Brooks

“ Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.”
~ Clarence W. Hall

“ God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.”
~ Robert South, Sermons

“ But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.”
~ Walter Raleigh

“ The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.”
~ Carl Knudsen

“ Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.”
~ S.D. Gordon

“ He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born.”
~ Alice Freeman Palmer

“ We live and die; Christ died and lived! ”
~ John Stott

“ Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“ Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.”
~ Martin Luther

“ The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death – that is not the great thing – but that…we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.”
~ Phillips Brooks