If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

Continue this practice no matter what happens or what anyone does to you.

I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.

When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.

As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.