Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
Gautama BuddhaHis success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
Gautama BuddhaNow 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.
Gautama Buddha