When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.
Winter always turns into Spring.
If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?