"If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us? "

– Gautama Buddha

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"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself."

– Gautama Buddha

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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

– Gautama Buddha

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

– Gautama Buddha

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"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance."

– Gautama Buddha

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"A jug fills drop by drop."

– Gautama Buddha

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"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

– Gautama Buddha

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"If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone."

– Gautama Buddha

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"When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself."

– Gautama Buddha

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This tree is covered in prayer flags and ringed by pilgrims who've come to Lumbini, Nepal, to visit the site of #GautamaBuddha's birth. Each year #Lumbini gets over 400,000 visitors