” 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.”
True love is born from understanding.
Lord Buddha
What Buddha said about love. ?
Gautama Buddha, popularly known as the Lord Buddha, was a Śramaṇa who lived in ancient India. He is regarded as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism. We have collected few quotes on love and relationship from Lord Buddha and other Buddhist figures.
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.
Lord Buddha
Buddha Quotes on love and relationships
- Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
- True love is born from understanding.
- Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
- Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.
- Love is a gift of one’s innermost soul to another so both can be whole.
- If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
- 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.
- He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
- Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.
- The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
- Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.
- You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
- If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
- Just as one feels loving-kindness, when seeing a dearly-beloved being, so one should extend one’s love to all creatures.
- Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.
Conquer the angry man by love.
Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness.
Conquer the miser with generosity.
Conquer the liar with truth.
Buddhist Quotes on love
- Love, compassion and sympathetic joy continue to emanate from the mind and act upon the world, but, being guarded by equanimity, they cling nowhere and return un-weakened and un-blemished.
- The person who is content with sensual love pays a heavy price for it.
- Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
- If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.
- The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change so that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger but in wisdom, understanding and love. H.H Dalai Lama
