Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

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

To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.

At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

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.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.