The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.

My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone anything is ridiculous, if it's important to you.

Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a sense of how beautiful this world is, how beautiful other worlds are, how beautiful nirvana, the transcendental is.