The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

Be a lamp unto yourself.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs

Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.