Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.

O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.