Greater in battle than the man who would conquer thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one —himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a Devi nor Gandhara, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.

— Gautama Buddha

Greater than all the joys Of heaven and earth, Greater still than dominion Over all the worlds, Is the joy of reaching the stream.

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind. A controlled mind brings happiness.

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

— Gautama Buddha

Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dharma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned the Dharma, they do not examine the meaning of those teachings with wisdom. Not examining the meaning of those teachings with wisdom, they do not gain a reflective acceptance of them. Instead, they learn the Dharma only for the sake of criticizing others and for winning in debates, and they do not experience the good for the sake of which they learned the Dharma.

— Gautama Buddha

He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

— Gautama Buddha

Hiatus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning? The eye is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning; also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact as its condition, that too is burning. Burning with what? Burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion, with birth, aging and death, with sorrow, with lamentation, with pain, grief and despair it is burning.

— Gautama Buddha

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attained-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

— Gautama Buddha