Gautama Buddha Quotes about Desire

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When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

Gautama Buddha

Serenity, Contentment, Desire

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

Gautama Buddha

Desire, Needs, Want

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

Gautama Buddha

Fear, Worry, Desire

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

Gautama Buddha

Sorrow, Desire, Ends

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

Gautama Buddha

Sorrow, Desire, Grows

Live joyfully, without desire.

Gautama Buddha

Desire

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Gautama Buddha

Buddhist, Feelings, Desire

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

Gautama Buddha

What Matters, Desire, Truth Is

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

Gautama Buddha

Ignorance, Roots, Desire

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

Gautama Buddha

Desire, Forests, Weary

I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

Gautama Buddha

Desire, Veins, Sickness

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

Gautama Buddha

Passion, Desire, Thorns

Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Kittens”, p.27, Mango Media Inc.

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Gautama Buddha

Desire, Might, Emptiness