When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.

The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.