The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.

I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.

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.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.