Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?