Dhammapada quote generator
The Buddha’s shortest sayings cover most of what a life throws at you. Write the feeling in plain words — the finder matches it against every one of the 423 verses’ themes, and shows the Pali alongside. It runs entirely in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere.
How the matching works
The finder is deliberately simple. Each verse carries theme tags — the fourteen subjects the book returns to most, from anger to impermanence. Your words are matched first against those curated theme keywords, then against the verse text itself. Plainer words match better: angry beats furious, grief beats heartbroken. When one verse isn’t quite right, “show another match” walks the closest eight.
If nothing matches, the random verse is often the better oracle — or browse the themes below.