If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.

It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life.

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.