Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is making the fetter even stronger. But he who takes pleasure in stilling his thoughts, practising the contemplation of what is repulsive, and remaining recollected, now he will make an end of craving, he will snap the bonds of Mara. His aim is accomplished, he is without fear, rid of craving and without stain. He has removed the arrows of changing existence. This is his last body.

Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.

Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.

It is your mind that creates the world.