Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.