If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives.

Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .